[HN Gopher] Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM
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Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM
Author : ingve
Score : 67 points
Date : 2025-01-26 17:01 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| data_ders wrote:
| so impressive the work that went into this.
|
| TIL that markdown-like audio file formats existed more than 20
| years ago!
| PaulDavisThe1st wrote:
| The Music N language family, which describe both the
| implementation of the sound generation engines and the pitch
| and timing of the sound, goes back to the 1950s. The original
| member of this family was used to do the first digital sound
| synthesis (Max Matthews rendering "A Bicycle Built for Two");
| the last and likely final member of the family, CSound, dates
| to the 80s but is still maintained and occasionally improved as
| an open source project.
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| The Music N family and other ideas inspired all kinds of much
| better text languages for music encoding, including examples
| like Chuck and the very large set of "live coding" languages
| that is constantly expanding.
| data_ders wrote:
| Amazing context! Yeah the article's snippets reminded me of
| Sonic Pi
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| https://sonic-pi.net/
| somat wrote:
| See Also: the openbsd pc speaker driver
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| http://man.openbsd.org/speaker
|
| I use it for fun alarms on my apu-2 based firewall
| echo "L8F#F#C#F#DF#C#F#BAG#ABAG#E" > /dev/speaker
| Dwedit wrote:
| What about MML? (As used by the PLAY command in Basic)
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