Vista - Making PowerShell sing

http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...21/jingle.aspx

How would one know the translation of notes to the proper format for
PowerShell to be able to play it?

I could 'reverse-engineer' the jingle above, but hardly have spare time
for that...


Marco


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I'm not quite sure I understand what you want to do. Are you looking to
change the music that the script plays?

If that's the case, the script uses a relatively convoluted encoding which
we made up. :-)

It's, Length Note Octave

Where Length is the inverse of the duration of the note. So for example:

4A4 would mean - 1/4 (Quarter) A4 note
1F3 would be a 1/1 (whole) F3 note

The encoding currently doesn't have a way of having rests or of specifying
how loud the note should play.

Nonetheless, we are working on setting up our encoding as a replacement for
MIDI, mp3,wma,aac,wav and all other music encoding and compression schemes.
We are pretty confident that it will catch on. :-)



"Marco Shaw" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...21/jingle.aspx
>
> How would one know the translation of notes to the proper format for
> PowerShell to be able to play it?
>
> I could 'reverse-engineer' the jingle above, but hardly have spare time
> for that...
>
>
> Marco
>
>
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> PowerGadgets MVP
> http://www.powergadgets.com/mvp
>
> Blog:
> http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com

Marcel J. Ortiz [MSFT] wrote:
> I'm not quite sure I understand what you want to do. Are you looking to
> change the music that the script plays?
>
> If that's the case, the script uses a relatively convoluted encoding
> which we made up. :-)
>
> It's, Length Note Octave
>
> Where Length is the inverse of the duration of the note. So for example:
>
> 4A4 would mean - 1/4 (Quarter) A4 note
> 1F3 would be a 1/1 (whole) F3 note
>
> The encoding currently doesn't have a way of having rests or of
> specifying how loud the note should play.
>
> Nonetheless, we are working on setting up our encoding as a replacement
> for MIDI, mp3,wma,aac,wav and all other music encoding and compression
> schemes. We are pretty confident that it will catch on. :-)

Yes, I want it to play another song. I just don't remember enough from
my music classes to tell you what I'm looking for.

I have the series of notes (Do, Re, etc.) that make up the song, so I
need to know each corresponding string that PowerShell will need to know.

Marco

"Marco Shaw" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I want it to play another song. I just don't remember enough from my
> music classes to tell you what I'm looking for.
>
> I have the series of notes (Do, Re, etc.) that make up the song, so I need
> to know each corresponding string that PowerShell will need to know.

Hi Marco,

In the Anglo-saxon world the notes are called A, B, C, D, E, F and G. The
scale starts with A being La up to G being Sol.

So, when you want to play a Sol on the 3rd octave for a whole length you
will write 1G3. I can't tell you what 3rd octave is exactly but I guess the
scale is relative to the standard A (or La) at 440Hz which is likely
considered as the first note of octave 0 (or 1?). In France you would pick
up your phone to have a rough idea of what note it is.

Jacques

Marco Shaw wrote:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...21/jingle.aspx
>
> How would one know the translation of notes to the proper format for
> PowerShell to be able to play it?
>
> I could 'reverse-engineer' the jingle above, but hardly have spare time
> for that...
>
>
Hi Marco,

translate from what? According to :
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/NoteNamesFrequenciesAndMidiNumbers.svg>
It is the international notation for note and octave, the leading number
being the fraction of the standard duration.

The RTTTL Ring Tone Format looks similar albeit it also supports bpm, pause
and (double) dotted notes.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Tone_Transfer_Language>
<http://www.wotsit.org/getfile.asp?file=rtttl&sc=240316664>
Free ring tones in RTTTL format may be found here:
<http://www.freering-tones.co.uk/old-rttl-doityourself-free-ring-tones.html>

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