play sound command?

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Thanks for the info, folks. Perhaps I didn't read far enough in the dictionary entries for the play command, but I didn't see a list of supported audio file types. Also, I found a link to "stop" but had to look at the tutorial online to get the "play stop" syntax. For me, this isn't a problem, but I'm thinking of the newbie and the really huge job of aligning the dictionary and user guide with the new features.

I guess I will need to figure out github and get into offering contributions to this effort. I know some tutorials have been posted, so.....

Best,
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 15, 2016, at 3:02 AM, panagiotis merakos <panos.merakos at livecode.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> Audio clips cannot be .mp3. The supported formats, according to the
>> dictionary entry for "audioClip" are:
>> 
>> *Audio clips can be in WAV, AIFF, or AU format*
>> 
>> I agree with you that the player object has many more capabilities. The
>> only advantage of audioClips is that you can store the sound *in the stack*:
>> 
>> *Unlike a player, an audio clip contains the sound that it plays. This
>> increases the memory required by your stack, because the sound data is
>> loaded into memory along with the rest of the stack whenever the stack file
>> is open. However, it prevents the sound from being accidentally separated
>> from the stack file and lost.*
> 
> I wonder if the dictionary is completely accurate in this regard. An audio clip does not HAVE to be imported into the stack to be played. This also works:
> 
>    play audioClip “/path/to/clip.wav”
> 
> The external file clearly functions as an audio clip, because the same format restrictions apply—this syntax only works with WAV, AIFF, and AU formats. So what is happening under the hood? When playing an external audio file, does LiveCode create a temporary audioClip object? I decided to make some updates to the dictionary entry, and I don’t want to tell any lies. :)
> 
> Devin
> 
> 
> Devin Asay
> Director
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
> 
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