User talk:Halftheisland

To try to get some order and logic to the Audio and Music file types, aren't "trackers" of the sort as some you've posted more in the area of instrument control than direct storage of audio (e.g., more like MIDI than WAV)... and thus, belonging in the Music rather than Audio section? Or does this ontology not make sense and need to be rethought? Dan Tobias (talk) 17:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

(Maybe Audio and Music should be merged, and then grouped into subcategories such as Musical Instrument Control and Sound Wave Storage?) Dan Tobias (talk) 17:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I think trackers pose an interesting problem in the Music vs. Sound issue - they produce single, self-contained files which hold both the instructions for playback and (often) the samples / instruments. They aren't, as far as I'm aware, generally used to control a standalone instrument in the same sense as MIDI, although I believe some of the Adlib trackers work in a similar way, in that they pass instructions for playback to a specific brand or type of soundcard.Halftheisland (talk) 18:24, 15 November 2012 (UTC)