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Re: Play sounds via script
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Re: Play sounds via script


  • Subject: Re: Play sounds via script
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:52:14 -0600

On Mar 3, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Robert Poland wrote:

> if I run;
>
> set soundPath to (path to documents folder as string) & "clutter:Sounds:mantel.aiff" as alias
> do shell script "afplay " & soundPath & " &> /dev/null & echo $!" -- start the music
>
> I get a console "60641" and no sound.

You need to insert:
set soundPath to (quoted form of (posix path of soundPath))

If you do 'afplay -h' in the Terminal, you will get some options you can't see elsewhere.



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