Subj : Projects
To   : Nightfox
From : Mercyful Fate
Date : Thu Mar 27 2014 13:54:00

  Re: Projects
  By: Nightfox to Mercyful Fate on Sun Mar 23 2014 21:07:53

 Ni> The main issue with music on a BBS is that there is (and has never been) a
 Ni> single standard for streaming music from a BBS to a client..  Some BBS
 Ni> door games had their own terminal software to support extended graphics
 Ni> and sound, but no official standard for a BBS.  I'm not sure how useful
 Ni> that would be though..  That would be similar to an internet web site with
 Ni> background music (which used to be more popular, in the mid 90s, usually
 Ni> in the form of MIDI). I tend to find that fairly annoying though - I
 Ni> sometimes like to listen to music on my computer while browsing the web &
 Ni> doing other things, so when I load a web page that has its own background
 Ni> music, it tends to be annoying rather than adding to the experience of the
 Ni> web site.

Ya midi's can be an ear full.  some of the tunes are ok but i much rather have
mp3's.  of course a custom client would be needed and the files would most
likely have to be downloaded and cached in a folder to not casue streaming lag
and eat up the connection.  HDX was a pretty interesting type of graphical bbs
system i played around with.  Something along those lines would make for a nice
type of secondary connection or interface to the bbs. 

 MF>> Well i would say it should matter about whats already out there, if
 MF>> all about you and want you want to do.  and nothing wrong with
 MF>> making something unique to your ideals and tastes.  That part of the
 MF>> fun.  :)

 Ni> Do you mean to say shouldn't matter?

Indeed! :)  

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