Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

[J. Landman Gay]

John Patten wrote:

> Here's what i have:
> 
> put the effective filename of current stack into theTargetPath
> set the itemDel to "/"
> delete last item of theTargetPath
> delete first item of theTargetPath
> put "/" & theTargetPath & "/recordings/" into theRecordingTarget
> 
> convert the date && the long time to seconds
> put it into tFileNameRec
> put tFileNameRec into cd fld "audioFileName"
> 
> send "mouseUp" to btn "Stop Recording" in 10 secs
> put "arecord -d 10 -fu8 -t wav" into tShellCmd
> put shell(tschellCmd&&theRecordingTarget&FilenameRec)
> 
> This works fine when I'm in the editor (saves to the "recordings" folder),
 >but when I create a standalone the standalone saves the audio file as
 >"student" in the location of the directory that I select to build the 
standalone.

I'm not sure what the "student" file name is all about, but when 
creating your file path, don't remove the first item. Only remove or 
append to the end of the path. That's assuming you want the Recordings 
folder in the same folder with the standalone:

put the effective filename of current stack into theTargetPath
set the itemDel to "/"
put "recordings/" into last item of theTargetPath

Then make sure there really is a folder named "recordings" in the target 
directory. If not, create it. Otherwise it won't work.

When running a standalone, the defaultfolder is the one containing the 
standalone, and all files will be created there unless directed 
somewhere else by a fully qualified file path.

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