Re: Play sounds via script
Re: Play sounds via script
- Subject: Re: Play sounds via script
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:07:01 -0700
On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
I ended up with;
set soundPath to (quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to documents folder as string) & "clutter/Sounds/mantel.aiff"))
set soundpid to do shell script "afplay " & soundPath & " &> /dev/null & echo $!"
I'll try that tomorrow and see if the "New" machine can handle it.
Thanks all,
Robert Poland - Fort Collins, CO
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