From: Charles Comstock <cc1@...>
Date: 2004-02-15T11:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32-sound 0.1.0

Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the release of win32-sound 0.1.0
> 
> What is it?
> ===========
> A simple interface for playing sounds on the Win32 platform.  It is
> based largely on the Perl and Python Win32 sound modules.
> 
> Where is it?
> ============
> On the RAA or the project page at
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/
> 
> Synopsis
> ========
> require "win32/sound"
> include Win32
> 
> wav = "c:\\windows\\media\\chimes.wav"
> 
> # Play 'chimes' sound once
> Sound.play(wav)
> 
> # Play 'chimes' sound in a loop for 3 seconds"
> Sound.play(wav,Sound::ASYNC|Sound::LOOP)
> sleep 3
> Sound.stop
> 
> # Beep for 2 seconds at 500 Hz
> Sound.beep(500,2000)
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> The Win32 Utils Team

Sounds good, speaking of sound I know linux sound has always been a bit 
mixed up with a bunch of competing libraries.  I wonder how difficult it 
would be to have a sound api for ruby that sat ontop of either platform 
and whatever library was available.  It might not be the most used 
library but it would certainly be nice.

Charles Comstock