I have used the following script in Snow Leopard, but it doesn't seem to work with Mountail Lion. Suggestions?
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
set the_file to "VGSMLShawver:Macintosh HD:Library:Audio:Apple Loops:Apple:iLife Sound Effects:Stingers:Comedy High Honk.caf"
set file_path to quoted form of (POSIX path of (the_file as alias))
do shell script ("afplay & file_path & file_path & " > /dev/null 2>&1&")
end tell
AppleScript
I think your script got mangled when you copied it over - the shell script uses file_path twice and there is a quoting issue. I'm not sure what else you are doing that requires the sound to play in the background, but you don't need QuickTime Player at all for this (afplay will play the audio file by itself), for example:
setfile_pathtoquoted formofPOSIX pathof (choose file)
do shell script"afplay " & file_path & " > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
Still couldn't get it. Basically I want to run a sound effect using AppleScript and Spark. I don't care if it runs in the background or not... might be nice though.
I don't have any Core Audio Files to play, but maybe using afplay is the problem. Using QuickTime Player to play the file would be something like:
setfile_pathto (choose file)
tellapplication"QuickTime Player"toplay (openfile_path)
Playing audio files with applescript
