From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V6 #78 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, March 28 2001 Volume 06 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Beatnik Player for Mac IE ["Robin" ] Re: Alloy: Alloy--Good luck to Kate on #3 ["Trevor James Blagg" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:26:37 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Alloy: Beatnik Player for Mac IE Beatnik Announces Immediate Availability of Beatnik Player 2.2=20 =20 New Beatnik Player Enables First Cross Platform Compatibility for = Internet Explorer Users =20 SAN MATEO, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Beatnik, Inc., a leading = provider of enhanced audio solutions and content for the digital = devices, games and the Web, today announced immediate availability of = the Beatnik(R) Player 2.2. Now for the first time, Macintosh Internet = Explorer (Mac IE) users can now enjoy the rich interactive musical = experience that Beatnik's audio technologies enable like Beatnik = sonified web pages and Mixman(R) eMixes(TM). Beatnik has also posted an = update to the Beatnik MusicObject API, version 3.4, for Web developers, = which will provide support for the Mac IE version of the Beatnik Player. Beatnik is one of the first companies to successfully create a = technology that allows plug-in code to communicate directly with = JavaScript on the Mac IE platform. While the LiveConnect method is = available on Netscape products for the Mac, there is no equivalent on = the Mac IE. Beatnik has used high-level Apple Events and will post code = examples so that other plug-in developers may benefit from their = experience. =20 "Support for Mac IE was the final piece needed to complete our robust = cross platform and cross device solution suite for Mac, Windows, and = Pocket PC infrastructures," said Bahman Dara, vice president of = marketing for Beatnik, Inc. "We are proud to be the first to deliver = such a cutting-edge solution for this rapidly changing environment." =20 The Beatnik Audio Engine (BAE(TM)), the core of the Beatnik Player, = enables users to experience CD-quality audio and music through a variety = of digital devices including mobile phones, PDAs and set-top boxes using = extremely small file sizes. It does not require special hardware and = provides a low bandwidth audio solution for digital devices. The BAE = can play back popular formats such as MP3, WAV, AIFF and enhances MIDI = by adding custom samples to recreate the original sound of the music. = This expanded capacity gives composers an unprecedented variety of = sounds to use in their creative productions. =20 The BAE's true strength is its ability to play Rich Music Format = (RMF(R)) files. RMF files are very compact and play back instantly when = started. This technology makes it possible to create truly interactive = audio environments and games on the Web and in digital devices. RMF = files are typically in the range of 10k to 400K while the equivalent MP3 = file would be 1MB to 4MB. =20 [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of tnw_website.gif] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:06:00 +0100 From: "Trevor James Blagg" Subject: Re: Alloy: Alloy--Good luck to Kate on #3 Julie wrote: > > Best of luck, Kate... I'll be thinking of you. Hope everything goes > beautifully and you and the baby are both healthy. BTW, if you are able to > listen to music during, I personally found that Gate to the Mind's Eye, the > slow, wandering instrumentals especially, to be very helpful. They take you > right out of yourself... > > Julie Here Here! good luck Kate! I also found The Gate to the Mind's Eye soothing when I'm in pain.......Putting up shelves. Hope everything goes fine, Trevor.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:10:04 -0500 From: "Robin" Subject: Alloy: pause in service 3/29 Please note that the owner of our service provider will be relocating on Thursday March 29th (estimating between 5am and 6pm EST) Any posts you send in during that day will be held in another location until the server is re-connected, and then should be sent through as usual. If anyone has any questions, please contact me! xxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V6 #78 **************************