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Play Sound is a simple, no-fuss sound player that supports QuickTime sound files (for example, AIFF or MP3 files), Classic Mac OS System 7 sound files (files with a file type of 'sfil' that contain 'snd ' resources), or any 'snd ' resources embedded into any file. You can play an unlimited number of sounds concurrently or one at a time. You can loop sounds, repeat sounds, play specified portions of sounds, control the volume of sounds played, pause and continue sound play, and press the Escape or Command-Period keys to abort sound play.
To use Play Sound as a simple sound
To use Play Sound as a simple sound
What's New
Version 1.6.7:
- Fixed a bug where Play Sound, on Mac OS X 10.5, was not handling sound file paths sent as Unicode text strings.
- Fixed a bug where Play Sound would return a "player status" of "quitting" if you sent a quit command, but sounds were still playing. Now, Play Sound will return "playing" until all sounds are done playing, and then return "quitting" just before quit.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
Play Sound User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:19,197 |
| Version Downloads:5,113 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Free |
| Date:27 Oct 2007 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Play Sound is a simple, no-fuss sound player that supports QuickTime sound files (for example, AIFF or MP3 files), Classic Mac OS System 7 sound files (files with a file type of 'sfil' that contain 'snd ' resources), or any 'snd ' resources embedded into any file. You can play an unlimited number of sounds concurrently or one at a time. You can loop sounds, repeat sounds, play specified portions of sounds, control the volume of sounds played, pause and continue sound play, and press the Escape or Command-Period keys to abort sound play.
To use Play Sound as a simple sound file player, simply drag and drop the sound file(s) onto the Play Sound icon in the Mac OS Finder. Better yet, you can configure the Mac OS X Finder to automatically open sound files with Play Sound whenever you double-click them (see Using Play Sound As a Sound Player in the documentation for easy instructions showing how to do this).
Play Sound is fully scriptable, allowing AppleScript writers to use simple, easy-to-understand English syntax to play most QuickTime-supported sound files, Classic Mac OS System 7 sound files, and even 'snd ' resources that are embedded directly in script applets. To script Play Sound, you call it from any AppleScript script or application.
To use Play Sound as a simple sound file player, simply drag and drop the sound file(s) onto the Play Sound icon in the Mac OS Finder. Better yet, you can configure the Mac OS X Finder to automatically open sound files with Play Sound whenever you double-click them (see Using Play Sound As a Sound Player in the documentation for easy instructions showing how to do this).
Play Sound is fully scriptable, allowing AppleScript writers to use simple, easy-to-understand English syntax to play most QuickTime-supported sound files, Classic Mac OS System 7 sound files, and even 'snd ' resources that are embedded directly in script applets. To script Play Sound, you call it from any AppleScript script or application.
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Roro01 reviewed on 21 Nov 2008
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I have noted your feature request to add a user interface to Play Sound. Unfortunately, adding a menu bar and window would not only increase the memory footprint of the application substantially, but would also make it take much longer to launch and quit. Also you should know you are only the second person out of tens of thousands of other users who has asked for a user interface. Most users of Play Sound seem to be perfectly happy with it the way it is, and wouldn't use the user interface anyway. I'm not of the opinion most users should suffer just because one or two users happen to want Play Sound to be something it's not. Remember: Play Sound is designed from the ground up to be a fast, simple, faceless sound player.
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Thanks for the kind words and suggestions.
Play Sound uses 0.00% CPU and about 1.0 MB of RAM while idle in the background. Therefore leaving Play Sound running in the background when sounds are finished playing is not a big deal. In fact, it's actually less work for the system to leave it running than it would be to launch and quit Play Sound each time you play a sound.
My goal with Play Sound is to offer Mac users a quick, transparent way to play sound files. Unfortunately, adding a user interface to Play Sound would slow startup times even more, making running and quitting it take even longer.
With that said, I do appreciate your input. I've noted your request, and will consider it for future updates. Or perhaps at some point in the future I'll find time to write a companion application with a user interface for those who want such a thing.
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Bruce_Y reviewed on 25 Jun 2007
And, re stopping it, both Esc and Command-period are kind of mac-universal stop commands always worth a try in any application to stop a process.
And I second the request for a minimal GUI. Something that shows sound being played, pause/play, stop and Quit would be great.
In current form, it is a 'faceless' application that must be controlled by Applescript commands, and either quit by same, or quit using some form of process viewer or Activity monitor. Less than ideal for those of us who don't want stuff running in the background, and don't want to assign all wave or audio files to be controlled by Play Sound.
Otherwise, it does seem to play sounds well.
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Aname reviewed on 08 Mar 2006
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"Stopping Sound Play
You can abort sound play immediately at any time one of two ways:
• by pressing the Escape or Command-Period (-.) keys on your keyboard
• by sending Play Sound the stop command
Example:
This script causes Play Sound to abort all currently-playing sounds:
tell application "Play Sound"
stop
end tell
Note: Using either method to stop sound play will clear all queued sounds from the queue."
Anonymous reviewed on 29 May 2005
When clicking the DL link on MU site, first I wait about a minute, then 920 KB download starts with speed of 0,6 KB per second.
Having a broadband connection sometimes doesn't mean high speeds.
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Anonymous reviewed on 10 Jun 2004
Don't you miss that?
You don't have to anymore, not with this little gem.
Thanks, author! *muwah!*
First, thank you for your kind review. I am glad you are enjoying Play Sound!
Second, I am always interested in making my software more useful! If there are any features you think should be added to Play Sound, please do send me an email, and tell me your ideas!
Email me here:
The error I receive is "doesn't understand the "
The script:
set cusrPath to (path to "cusr" as string)
set soundAlias to (cusrPath & "Documents:Microsoft User Data:Custom Sounds:Quack.aiff") as alias
tell application "Play Sound"
play (soundAlias as alias)
end tell
I'm also having trouble opening scripts in the Script Editor in Leopard. SE crashes when I try to open a script.
I rely on Play Sound and the ability it has given me to get custom notifications for email. What do I need to do to get it working again?
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To fix your scripts, open them in Script Editor, add a blank line (or make a similar trivial change to the text), then save the script.