From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `play-sound-file', no mp3 support, sets global volume w/o reset Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:07:07 +0200 Message-ID: <878qvyqtqs.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87bk13w0he.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39678"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5I3DOJlsl0JUV36aLWPFCQlT1UY= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 11 14:27:48 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1soMRo-000A91-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:27:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1soMRD-00048k-0k; Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1soM83-0003eH-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1soM81-0005ti-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1soM7v-0008RG-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:07:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:26:39 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:323543 Archived-At: > 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. Did anyone check this out? If unsolved, in practice it means one cannot use it. My Russian eurodance plays loud and clear at 30-40%. Just imagine I execute some code that plays a sound at 100% and then don't reset. The whole block would be dancing. So while most people would probably just never use a program again if they know they have to reset their settings afterwards, it actually could be even dangerous. 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? Would that work? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal