Playing sound files

[William Prothero]

BTW, the dictionary entry for Player refers to Quicktime movie and needs updating.
Best,. 
Bill

> On Apr 22, 2016, at 2:18 PM, panagiotis merakos <merakosp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> You can use the player object. On OSX (from 10.8 onwards), it uses the
> AVFoundation framework. The AVFoundation supports the following file
> formats:
> 
> Audio:
>    .aifc and .cdda
>    .aif and .aiff
>    .caf
>    .m4a (=Apple m4a audio file format)
>    .wav, .wave, and .bwf
>    .amr
>    .ac3
>    .mp3
>    .au and .snd
> 
> 
> Video
>    .m4v  (=iTunes video file format)
>    .mp4
>    .mov and .qt  (=QuickTime movies)
> 
> 
> On Windows, the player should be able to play any formats supported by MCI
> Player, which are more or less the usual multimedia formats supported on
> Windows: .mp3, .midi, .wav, .wma, .wmv etc
> 
> We are planning to rework the Windows player soon, so this list is likely
> to expand.
> 
> Best,
> Panos
> --
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Folks:
>> I know this has been discussed ad-infinitum here. But, I can’t find the
>> references I need and the dictionary is no help. So…..
>> 
>> Playing sounds. I want to play sound files and don’t want to have to use
>> Quicktime, since Apple is not supporting it anymore and I want to play the
>> files on Windows too.
>> 
>> So.,. What are my choices and what sound file format should I use?
>> 
>> Could you point me to a reference relevant to LC8?
>> 
>> Thanks for your patience,
>> Bill
>> 
>> 
>> William Prothero, Ph.D.
>> University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus
>> prothero at earthednet.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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