From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Schierl <schierlm@gmx.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: play-sound causes "Invalid sound specification" on valid :data (on Windows)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:28:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u645oi477.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4672E371.9050908@gmx.de> (message from Michael Schierl on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:07:29 +0200)
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:07:29 +0200
> From: Michael Schierl <schierlm@gmx.de>
>
> - Load emacs -Q
> - Create a valid .au file in a string (it's easier than .wav):
>
> (setq mysound (concat ".snd" ; magic number
> "\0\0\0\30" ; sound offset 0x18
> "\0\0\0\1" ; sound length 1 byte
> "\0\0\0\2" ; encoding 8-bit PCM
> "\0\0\37@" ; sampling rate 8kHZ
> "\0\0\0\1" ; 1 channel (mono)
> "x")) ; some random "sound"
>
> - check if the string is really unibyte, as it should:
>
> (multibyte-string-p mysound)
> => nil
>
> - play it
>
> (play-sound `(sound :data ,mysound))
> => (error "Invalid sound specification")
Thank you for your report.
This is a known limitation: the Windows port of Emacs currently
doesn't support :data for playing sound. You MUST use :file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-16 10:28 UTC|newest]
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2007-06-15 19:07 ` play-sound causes "Invalid sound specification" on valid :data (on Windows) Michael Schierl
2007-06-16 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-06-16 11:38 ` Michael Schierl
2007-06-16 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-12 20:37 ` bug#250: " Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-14 16:20 ` bug#250: marked as done (play-sound causes "Invalid sound specification" on valid :data (on Windows)) Emacs bug Tracking System
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