From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Schierl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: play-sound causes "Invalid sound specification" on valid :data (on Windows) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:38:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4673CBC3.9050704@gmx.de> References: <4672E371.9050908@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181993934 2405 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 11:38:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 13:38:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HzWcG-0001WJ-Qp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:38:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzWcG-0006d3-3D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:38:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzWcE-0006cr-7w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzWcB-0006cf-Q3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzWcB-0006cc-Lx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzWcB-0001rp-32 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2007 11:38:46 -0000 Original-Received: from p549BBDA3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.0.201]) [84.155.189.163] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 16 Jun 2007 13:38:46 +0200 X-Authenticated: #13243522 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1827IQI3aI2AHoQg7G1sCjYi+pAJyPlSZciyrMvfq momBGxP4fxg9mi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 OpenPGP: id=58B48CDD X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15907 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii schrieb: > This is a known limitation: the Windows port of Emacs currently > doesn't support :data for playing sound. You MUST use :file. Where is this documented? If it is not, please regard this as a documentation bug. The only thing I could find is in etc/NEWS: ------ ** Sound is now supported on MS Windows. WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the more recent versions of Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level sound support for those formats. ------ Michael