re: Add sound to animated gif

>There are some utils that converts 89a's to Java and you can add sound,
>I think one of them is egor animation.

Thanks for the above and many other comments that I received on this
newsgroup and via email.

After reviewing all inputs and after evaluating some of the more promising
demo software packages, I came to the conclusion, that the original idea
of adding sound to animated gifs is not a good one. It is an inferior
approach to taking a multimedia authoring tool in the first place, and my
multimedia technology of choice is QuickTime. It is the same technology
that Pixar Studios have used to implement the Toy Story Book, but my
multimedia production will be on a slightly smaller scale  :-)

Seen from a different perspective, ascii art will be "merely" one medium
in the multimedia experience involving motion, color and sound. Making
these multimedia movies is therefore multiple, multiple, multiple times
more work, but also multiple, multiple, multiple times more fun (for me at
least).

In any case, I have already placed a placeholder on my homepage ...

Let's Sing and Dance, Birdstein! (ascii art multimedia)

... and I will let this newsgroup know if I manage to populate that page,
hopefully in the near future. (I have already placed an animated, although
not multimedia, banner on that page, you may enjoy that for the moment)

You will need a QuickTime plugin for your web browser (if you don't have
it already) that you can download from Netscape's home page or from
Microsoft Internet Explorer's home page or from Apple Computer's QuickTime
home page, and from many other places in cyberspace for that matter. The
QuickTime plugin is freeware (just like all the other plugins are).

BTW, I already got a "YOU GOT TO DO IT!" suggestion for Birdstein to do
the "Macarena" in multimedia, but the digital soundtrack alone is already
several MB, so a solution is needed to reduce the file size. Or is there
anyone willing to wait for 10 minutes, just to watch an ascii bird sing
and dance the Macarena?
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