sound

Are there any sources for getting affordable graphics and sounds for software products and games?

When making software, specially games, those resources like graphics and sounds are something "freaky" that's out of range of the developers brain and feasibility. I mean...sound effects like cool beeps: Who in the world can make them? Almost nobody of us, I guess ;) So: Is there any good legal ressource for this kind of content, which ...

Bluetooth sound output on Android

Hello, I just noticed, using the HTC Dream that using a bluetooth headset was really easy for phone calls, but nothing seemed to be available for videos / music sound output. V1.0 limitations are not at fault since when you play a music and start a call, you can hear the music in the headset for a second. So it's technically possible, j...

iPhone - AVAudioPlayer, kAudioSessionCategory_AmbientSound and iPod music

Hi, I'm using the following Audio Session in my app delegate: AudioSessionInitialize(NULL, NULL, NULL, self); UInt32 sessionCategory = kAudioSessionCategory_AmbientSound; AudioSessionSetProperty(kAudioSessionProperty_AudioCategory, sizeof(sessionCategory), AudioSessionSetActive(true); I want the user to be able to play iPod...

editing a wav files using python

Hi, i have a wav file and between each word in the wav file I have full silence (I checked with Hex workshop and silence is represented with 0's) how can I cut the non-silence sound ? I'm programming using python thanks ...

best software synthesizer for piano

Could someone recommend a good and inexpensive software synthesizer which generates really good piano sound (sample-based); support for other instruments is not required. OS: Windows or MacOS. Java interface would be a great asset. ...

How to Respond to Sound In Another Application?

Can someone give me some info/background info on how I might go about writing an application that 'listens' to the sounds being made by the computer's sound card or a specific other program. For example, if I kicked off a long-running 3rd party app that gives no indication of when it is done, except a loud 'DING!' sound. Is there anywa...

How do I create a "sound on/ sound off" button?

I've seen many web pages with a simple sound on /sound off button which plays music or some mp3 file when you press sound on and turns it off when you press off. How do I do that? Hi, I wasn't planning on using Flash -- if there is a standard plugin I could use and then make modification to the script, that'd be cool. I'm open to what...

is it possible to make "beep" sound in php like in gmail

for an IM script i am making, i would like the computer to beep like in gmail everytime there is a new message. is there a script in php or html to make the computer beep? Thanks! ...

Is there a way to play audio snippets in C# without installing the DirectX SDK?

For a school project I need to create a program and it'd be nice if it could include some sound effects. We're using C# (and Visual C# Express Edition 2008 Edition) to code our programs, and I was wondering if there's anyway to play short audio files without installing the DirectX SDK. On our school computers, we don't have sufficient ...

Playing dynamically embedded sound object via Javascript

I need to background load some WAV files for an HTML page using AJAX. I use AJAX to get the details of the WAV files, then use the embed tag, and I can confirm that the files have loaded successfully because when I set autostart to true, the files play. However, I need the files to play only when the user clicks on a button (or an event ...

Change Sound Volume from .net code

Is there an easy way to set the volume from managed .net code? ...

Reducing WAV sound file size, without losing quality

My application needs to play sound files. The only cross-platform file format I can use is WAVE (I'm using QSound of the Qt framework). The file sizes of these sounds are quite large and I'd like to know if there is a way to reduce it, without losing (too much) quality. I need the file to be stereo. ...

Some help with basic Sound functions in actionscript 3

Hello all. I'm working on a mp3 player and I'm super new at all things flash so there are lots of questions. Currently I'm getting stuck on the track change. My variable declaration look like this: var index:int = -1; var music:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("moe2008-05-24d02t02_vbr.mp3")); var sc:SoundChannel; var isPlaying:B...

Halting a playing sound sample on iPhone using AudioServices

I am implementing a sound effect that plays while a user is dragging a UISlider. Here is the IBAction: called by the UISlider's Value Changed event -(IBAction)playTone4; { AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(soundID4); } I would like the sound to halt when the user is not dragging the slider but has not released it. Is there a way to ...

Syncing Frames to Audio and channel.position Acuracy

Calling channel.position on an ENTER_FRAME event, I notice that it's not being updated every frame, but it looks more like every frame and a half. var sound:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest('music.mp3')); var channel:SoundChannel = sound.play(); // assume the sound is completely, // totally, 100...

AVAudioPlayer sound on iPhone stops looping unexpectedly: How to debug?

I am implementing a sound effect that plays while a user is dragging a UISlider. In a previous question, I used AudioServicesPlaySystemSound() but that type of sound can't be halted. I need the sound to halt when the user is not actively dragging the slider but has not released it. Now I am creating a sound using an AVAudioPlayer objec...

How can i synthesize and output simple sound waves in C#?

If you have a lisp, please dont try and say my title. But yes, whats the easiest way to generate simple, or Bonus for more complex sawtooth and other waves. kthxbye ...

Detect Processes using Audio on Windows

How do I detect which processes are playing audio on my Windows machine? In other words, how do I enumerate processes which are using my sound card? ...

Changing speed of a sound file

I'm looking to change the speed of a sound file, but am at a loss as to how to accomplish it. I'm assuming that some type of interpolation has to take place in the case of slowing it down, but am unsure how to accomplish a speed up - perhaps an average of several samples? Whether it changes the tempo or pitch doesn't really matter at t...

What event do I need to supress to stop IE from "Dinging" when I press enter in a text box?

On simple forms with one text box pressing enter submits the form (and this is great for easy search forms) However on a form with multiple fields, pressing Enter in an input="text" box won't do anything (e.g. submit) but in IE it "Dings" as if you have tried to delete an undeletable object. The question is... what event do I need to s...