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Author:  David Luebbert Posted:  1/16/06; 3:59:17 PM Msg#:  4670 (top msg in thread) Prev/Next:  4669/4671 Reads:  2024

If you use a QuickTime Player to play the MIDI sequences encountered by your web browser, you might hear a quick blast of noise as the MIDI starts to play. This would especially be a problem when you visit the SongTrellis site because we use MIDI so liberally.

I personally encountered this when I used QuickTime Players on Mac OS 9 and for Windows. When I started to use QuickTime on OS X the problem disappeared for me. I worked around the problem on Windows by using Windows Media Player for MIDI playback.

I just found an online reference to initial noise occuring during playback
of a MIDI clip by QuickTime, which recommends a QuickTime preference change that eliminates the playback noise: http://tones.wolfram.com/tsfaqs/windows/quicktimemidi.html The article claims the noise is due to a bug in QuickTime 6.x.

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