Re: esound, u_int16_t, and other yucks

[Haukur Hreinsson <hawk london is>]

Grrrr! Ctrl-E is not move-to-eol in Outlook, it's
send-right-now-without-asking-for-confirmation. 

Haukur Hreinsson wrote:
> 
> Yo 'Ric Dude wrote:
> >
> > Dan Newcombe wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Hey...I just love the startup sound of esd :)
> >
> > Patterned after the extended dynamic range cassette tape intro.
> > If it drives you nuts, start esd with the "-nobeeps" option. =)
> 
> -nobeeps, huh. Wish I'd known about that in the beginning. The first
> time esd was started with my X session, I happened to have on a pair of
> Sennheiser HD580's, and the volume happened to be nearly maxed out. Now,
> this configuration is fine for CD's, TV, radio, or any other normal
> audio signal, but this signal is quite different. This is the devil's
> doing. He wasn't quite satisfied with forks on china, or chalk on
> blackboard, so he came back for one final try.
> 
> I was relaxed, I had my guard down, I was totally unprepared. Then, out
> of nowhere, came the daemon's shriek. I twitched, I writhed, I
> exclaimed. I was Kramer on "Seinfeld"!
> 
> So, Ricdude (or shall I say Lucifer), how about toning down those
> frequencies and that extreme stereo separation?
> 
> Another thing: I didn't see anything in esound's TODO file about
> head-related transfer functions. I don't know how much you know about
> them, but if it's not much, you might want to read up on them and
> consider implementing some support in esd (which is certainly where it
> belongs, if anywhere). Some random sources of information:

http://www.headphone.com/psychoac.htm
http://developer.intel.com/ial/rsx/WPAPER.HTM

(Funny how MS-OS users *still* limit filenames to 8.3)

Anyway, I'm not one to demand implementation of my personal wishlist
features, but I figured this might spark some interest among developers.


Haukur Hreinsson