Re: play-sound-file & esd

[Jan Djärv]

Burton Samograd skrev:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
> > Maybe a solution would be to make it possible to configure an external
> > player command, when the internal method is not suficient?
>
> I just wrote some code for my jabber client to play sounds
> asynchronously using an external player app so that I could get event
> sounds without having my system hang to wait for playback.  I looked
> at the sound.c code and was trying to figure a quick way for
> non-blocking playback, but didn't have the time and hacked a elisp
> version using call-process-shell-command.
>
> I can post the code if anyone is interested, but right now it's
> specific to my demands of playing a different sound on each event; I
> was planning on ripping it out and sending it to .sources so this
> could give me the kick to get it done.

I guess we need to add async sound playing in the future.  But then you have 
to add a cancel-sound as well.  Do you have that?  Or one could restrict 
sounds we play to not be longer than a second or two.  What external command 
are you using?  I guess one would have to use different commands for esd, 
jack, alsa, oss and so on.

   Jan D.