# Introduction
Please follow the <b>[lab handout](lab5res/CS3841Lab5AMultiprocessAudioPlayer.pdf)</b>, including the <b>Specific Requirements</b>. For the lab report, the [Lab5 Checklist](lab5res/CS3841Lab5Checklist.pdf) is the final authority and could be in a different order and certainly has other minor differences from Dr. Schilling's <em>Deliverables</em> at the end of the lab handout.
* Submit your report in hard-copy at the start of the week 4 lab period, with the [Lab5 Checklist](lab5res/CS3841Lab5Checklist.pdf) stapled on top of it.
* Submit your code through github classroom by forking [the lab 5 repository (navigate to link within blackboard)](http://msoe.blackboard.com).
* This is a team lab. You may work in teams of one or two. Both team members ***must commit*** to the repository.
* Please make your teamname<br>
```username1_username2```<br>
***where ```username1``` comes first in the alphabet*** and both ```usernames``` are your MSOE emails without the @msoe.edu. For example, Phileas Fogg's email is foggp@msoe.edu, and his username is foggp. Please use underscores (```_```), not dashes (```-```) to separate the usernames.
* Follow the [more formal lab report style](ReportStyle) this quarter than I usually do.
# Tips
Making a snapshot of your machine is *not* required in Dr. Yoder's section. Making a snapshot can be useful, but can make copying your VM to another machine more difficult (since both the [original drive and the snapshot differential](https://www.veeam.com/blog/why-snapshots-alone-are-not-backups.html) are stored, in separate places).
# Resources
* [Lab Handout](lab5res/CS3841Lab5AMultiprocessAudioPlayer.pdf)
* [Lab5 Checklist](lab5res/CS3841Lab5Checklist.pdf)
* [Report Style](ReportStyle)
* Required videos:
* YouTube: [Binary Files in C](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RtmlBV2bBU) (Dr. Schilling)
* Optional videos:
* YouTube: [CS3841 Lab 5 Demonstration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuYQOADetMs) (Dr. Schilling)
* YouTube: [Making Music Files](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gM7XTbSy7E) (Dr. Schilling)
* YouTube: [Decker's and Peterson's Algorithms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMBwwzc5I68) (Dr. Schilling)
* Pulse-Code Modulation (PCM) Resources
* Uncompressed audio is stored in a PCM format, a simple format where each sample is digitized in binary.
* [Wikipedia's PCM article has a useful introduction buried in the "Modulation" section](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-code_modulation#Modulation)
* [Glossary of terms](https://larsimmisch.github.io/pyalsaaudio/terminology.html)
* [The Rebase Introduction I Wish I Had](https://dev.to/maxwell_dev/the-git-rebase-introduction-i-wish-id-had)
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