playing sound files with applescript in snow leopard

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playing sound files with applescript in snow leopard

My old reliable, "Play Sound," apparently doesn't work with 10.6.3 (or 10.6.x in general). Can you suggest a simple alternative?

Example:


tell application "?"
 play file ((path to desktop as Unicode text) & "Sound Files:doorbell.wav")
 
end tell

Message was edited by: osimp

Message was edited by: osimp

Intel Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 21, 2010 2:38 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 21, 2010 3:00 PM in response to osimp

afplay comes installed on Snow Leopard


/usr/bin/afplay

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Answer 2

hubionmac

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Apr 21, 2010 3:08 PM in response to osimp

Some time ago I wrote a CGI-Script, that I could trigger through a simple WEB-Request. This CGI-Script was just some AppleScript (through oasascript-command) to set up the server's sound-volume and for playing a sound through the command line-app.
I used a small example-app Apple greated (X-Code command line app-example) which is called Ascii-movie-player.
When you open a quicktime-movie using this app in your terminal, it trys showing it using ascii-characters, but it works with simple soundfiles (quicktime is able to play), too.

I compiled it for PPC so it should work, when Rosetta ist installed. For more info take a look at
http://hubionmac.com/wordpress/2008/10/alarm-ton-bei-aufruf-einer-website-panic- button-20/
There you will find a copy of the source and a compiled version (CGI-Alarm)

e.g. you saved the player binary at /usr/local/bin/player

do shell script "/usr/local/bin/player ~/Music/doorbell.wav"

should work

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Budgie

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Apr 21, 2010 3:34 PM in response to osimp

Hi

give this a shot using afplay

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set the_file to "Macintosh HD:Users:osimp:Desktop:Samashing Pumpkins.aif" --path to your sound file
set file_path to quoted form of (POSIX path of (the_file as alias))
do shell script ("afplay " & file_path & " > /dev/null 2>&1 &")
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Answer 4

osimp Author

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Apr 22, 2010 7:41 AM in response to Budgie

That works, so credit where credit is due.

Although I can definitely incorporate that in an AppleScript, it's a bit clumsy to do when there are a lot of sound files/scripts. I was really hoping for a third-party application that I could simply drop in, in place of "Play Sound."

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