sound

How to fade out volume naturally?

I have experimented with a sigmoid and logarithmic fade out for volume over a period of about half a second to cushion pause and stop and prevent popping noises in my music applications. However neither of these sound "natural". And by this I mean, they sound botched. Like an amateur engineer was in charge of the sound decks. I know th...

What are good sites for free sounds that developers can use in applications?

So far I have found: http://www.soundsnap.com/ ...

How to play sound in JavaFX?

I'm experimenting with JavaFX making a small game. I want to add sound. How? I tried MediaPlayer with media defined with relative source attribute like: attribute media = Media{ source: "{__FILE__}/sound/hormpipe.mp3" } attribute player = MediaPlayer{ autoPlay:true media:media } It doesn't play. I get "FX Media Ob...

Playing small sounds in Java game

For the computer game I'm making, I obviously want to play sound. So far, I've been using AudioClip to play WAV files. While this approach works fine, the WAV files tend to be gigantic. A few seconds of sound end up being hundreds of kB. I'm faced with having a game download that's 95% audio! The obvious option here would be to use MP3 ...

How to play a wav-File in Delphi?

Which functions are available within Delphi to play a sound-file? ...

How to make a noise on the PC speaker with Java

I want to alert the user in a Swing application of certain events with an old fashioned PC Speaker beep, since not on every PC there is a soundcard with an attached speaker. (At least on my work PC there is no speaker, with a reason. :-) How can I do this? UPDATE: java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep() seems usually to generate a s...

What's a cross platform way to play a sound file in python?

Hey guys, I tried playing a .wav file using pyaudio. It works great on windows, but doesn't work in Ubuntu when another device is using sound. The error is "IOError: [Errorno Invalid output device (no default output device)] -9996 Is there another library I could try to use? Another method? ...

How to generate sound effects in Java?

I'm looking for Java code that can be used to generate sound at runtime - NOT playback of existing sound files. For example, what's the best code for generating a sawtooth waveform at 440 Hz for a duration of 2 milliseconds? Source code appreciated! I remember my Commodore 128 had a simple Sound command that took as parameters voice, f...

Sound not working in iPhone Simulator?

Somehow my iPhone Simulator is unable to play sounds. First an app I'm working on using AudioServicesPlaySystemSound() stopped working.. I spent a while debugging this but sound is still working on the iPhone when I run the app on the device. I get the same results with other iPhone apps such as the sample Crash Landing app. I can't f...

Play a Sound with Python

What's the easiest way to play a sound file (.wav) in Python? By easiest I mean both most platform independent and requiring the least dependencies. pygame is certainly an option, but it seems overkill for just sound. ...

Playing wav files in Firefox on Red Hat

We have a JavaScript construct that will play .wav files within Firefox on Windows and MacOSX, but it does not work for Red Hat Linux. What extension do I need? ...

How can I record audio using Action script then upload it to server?

First is there any technique for using Action Script for recording sound from microphone? If yes. How? Then one he record I'll upload it to server. ...

What set of build sounds do you use?

Applications like CCTray allow one to specify a sound clip to indicate that a build is successful or that a build failed. I'm interested to hear what set of sounds different teams are using. Here are two sets that we use: Homer Simpson: "d'oh" for a build failure, "woohoo!" for success Mario bros: power down sound for a build failure,...

Sound disappearing in Flash 9 on non-IE browsers

I'm working on a site (http://easy2speak.com) with about 10 flash SWFs on each page. Each of the SWFs are playing back a sound when clicked. Loading the sound, and playing it without any latency works fine, but in Flash player version 9 on all major browsers except IE, the sound suddenly drops out. It usually works for the first 10-20 cl...

Free sound editor / converter?

I'm looking for something like paint.net or Gimp, but for audio files, and runs on windows. ...

Embed Tag in HTML - How can I know in Javascript that the .wav file is done playing?

Right now I'm trying to add a button to a webpage that when pressed will start playing a .wav file by dynamically adding an embed tag to the DOM. The text switches to "Stop" while the sound plays, and I'd like to be able to switch it back automatically to "Play" once the file has finished playing. How would I be able to execute some Jav...

Playing mp3 with delphi

Which component to use to play mp3 files from streams/files and also to know the lenght in seconds of that mp3 stream? ...

Input level monitoring with Java Sound API

Hi All, I would like to monitor the microphone input level from Java Sound API (and create a small input level meter UI). I'm not interested in capturing only to see if the device is ready/working. Any idea is appreciated. ...

Masking the navigation sounds in IE using AutoIT?

I wrote a program using AutoIT to fetch information from a number of websites using Internet Explorer. AutoIT is capable of hiding the window so that it is not visible, however when I navigate to a new website on that hidden window I still get the IE navigation sounds (button click sound, etc.). How can I disable the sounds from playing...

Knowing which process produced a sound

My computer often produces a "ding" sound, and I can't associate it with anything. Is it possible to programmatically determine the source of the beeps? For example can I hook the sound driver? If so, can you point out some examples or references? ...