Playing sound files

[panagiotis merakos]

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
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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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