Re: `play-sound-file', no mp3 support, sets global volume w/o reset

["Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

>> But play-sound-file has another problem, namely, if you do
>> e.g.
>>
>>   (play-sound-file (file-name-concat bad-dir "data" "up.au") 0.4)
>>
>> it sets the global volume to 40% and worse, after it is
>> done, it isn't reset.

> Also, another bad thing is that the command monopolizes
> execution. I know Elisp is single-threaded and the idle timer
> and C threads don't change that, but what about
> a child process?


I recently looked into this as I wanted to play a sound when sending a
notification in Emacs.

There's package that implements a async play-sound using the async
package:
https://github.com/jcs-elpa/sound-async/blob/master/sound-async.el#L43