16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
6:50 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Terry Stewart wrote:
Eventually after playing around and finding the limits
I discovered that if I
made the WAV files 8.5% slower I'd always get a successful load no matter how
large the file (actually tolerance seemed to be between 7.5% and 9.5%). The
more I moved outside those tolerance parameters, the quicker a load failed.
I don't know if this is the real cause of your problem or not (given that
you seem to have the same problem with WAVs and pre-recorded tapes), but
the 8.5% number is interesting. Two of the most common sample rates
supported by audio cards are 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz; they differ by about
8.8%. Is it possible that the MESS output is intended for a 44.1 kHz
sample rate but is actually being played out of your sound card at 48 k
samples/sec? That could explain why slowing it down by 8.5% would make it
OK again...
Alexey