Quartz Builder – will it host audio ? – Yes it will

Posted on March 16, 2012 by cyberoblog

Here’s how Quartz Builder can host audio.

Firstly – you’ll need to have installed the excellent Kineme Audio Tools.

Secondly you’ll need to be thinking in terms of project centric folders wherein all the project assets are held – no potentially orphaned folders or iTunes folders please.

Thirdly, you’ll have an application oriented composition that you will have developed within Quartz Composer, using the Quartz Builder template, utilising the aforementioned Audio Tools to bring in the audio files from your project folder into which you should save the application oriented composition.

Fourthly, you open Quartz Builder, drag the composition over onto the QB application faceplate and then populate the fields as you see fit, Company name, Copyright, Icon [use Icon Composer to create that], etc. Check the Resource Inspector that all required plugins are in place, check Advanced Settings are good for your purposes and Export.

Quartz Builder Main Application Window

Quartz Builder Main Application Window

Quartz Builder Resource Inspector Panel

Quartz Builder Resource Inspector Panel

Quartz Builder Advanced Settings Panel

Quartz Builder Advanced Settings Panel
Jobs a good’un.

See Post on Kineme site – Quartz Builder and audio for the wee demo application associated with this blog post.

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  1. JigglyBarsQBQuads (57.6 KiB)
    Quartz Builder Faceplate

  2. ResourceInspector (31.6 KiB)
    Quartz Builder Resource Inspector

  3. AdvancedSettings (59 KiB)
    Quartz Builder Advanced Settings - yours may well vary

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2 Responses to "Quartz Builder – will it host audio ? – Yes it will"

  • By Alastair Leith March 17, 2012 - 2:28 am

    Hi Cybero

    I’ve found you can embed Fonts too by adding them as to QB resources. Not all fonts will work in the QB app though. Open Type PS fonts seem okay anything True Type I haven’t had any luck with so far not sure of teh reasons behind that. Note Font Licensing may apply :-)

    Can you find an alternative to reCAPTCHA — I hate it. I lost my comment an had to retype b/c of a reCap miss. It’s so freaking hard to read them.

    • By cyberoblog March 17, 2012 - 9:15 am

      Thanks for the advice regarding the embedding of PS Open Type Fonts. What a pity that True Type Open Type Fonts aren’t similarly accepted. Well PostScript is PostScript – the maths says it all I guess.

      I am temporarily suspending all that re-Captcha stuff and shall seek a suitable alternative, which might well boil down to some old fashioned Bulk Actions when necessary :-) .