Playing sound files

[William Prothero]

Panos:
Is there anything special I need to do, if I want to stop a player, then assign it a different sound file? It seems to want only to play the file that it is initially set at. I play different sound files as I step through a presentation.
Best,
Bill

> On Apr 22, 2016, at 3:32 PM, William Prothero <waprothero at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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