At 06:32 PM 30/05/2011, Lester Caine wrote:

>Helen Borrie wrote:
>> As a comment on Lester's comments talking up the low-spec hardware - the 2 GB RAM and 60 GB disk storage are likely to be showstoppers, given that the software for intended use is reading and writing big BLOBs (it captures and retrieves sound files).
>
>I'm only seeing 'student assessment and record-keeping'. I don't think either of
>these packages actually record raw music, Auralia actually say 'microphone
>optional'.

Auralia is ear-training software. I'm sure it keeps records and would be used in the assessment process - otherwise, why bother? ;-) But ear training is about listening and (optionally) feeding back, the purpose being to exercise the student's senses of pitch, rhythm, harmony, yada, yada. That's what the audio files (in BLOBs) are for. Off topic.

./hb