Re: Default Sounds

[David Chisnall]

On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:19, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> Which format would be best?


Anything that the new NSSound code supports.  Since they only need to  
be a couple of seconds long, we can probably distribute them as  
uncompressed sounds, I'd suggest 16-bit either mono or stereo  
depending on the sound (the 'whooosh' sound Apple provides makes good  
use of stereo, flying from one side to the other, but others are  
essentially mono).

Apple provides theirs as 16-bit Integer (Big Endian - even on x86,  
marginally interestingly), Stereo, 44.100 kHz .aiff files.  The total  
file size for all of the sounds is under 1MB.  Someone shipping a  
handheld platform where space was at a very tight premium could encode  
them as something like vorbis if the sound input bundle supported this  
format to save some space.

On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:43, Felix Holmgren wrote:

> I've been able to find some high quality sounds on www.freesound.org
> earlier, and I'm sure there are other similar collections to forage.
> If we want to be more ambitious, I know a couple of sound designers I
> could ask for help, and maybe others do to?

There are lots of good sources of public domain or permissively- 
licensed sounds, but finding 14 that match the names is time  
consuming.  If you know a sound designer who'd be interested in  
providing them then that would be really great.

David