Sound playing routines.
This module provides wrapper functions for playing sound samples. Currently it just wraps the esound daemon, but the API is flexible enough that other sound infrastructures can be included in the future.
These functions also allow for the fact that no sound may be supported on the current platform. So applications can safely call these functions to play sounds and they will just quietly return if no action is possible.
mchars)Initialize the esd connection.
- hostname
- Hostname where esd daemon resides.
mchars)Plays the audio stored in filename, if possible. Fail quietly if playing is not possible (due to missing sound support or for other reasons).
- filename
- File containing the sound sample.
mchars) (filename mchars) ⇒ (ret int)Loads the audio from filename and load it into the esd cache for later playing. Programs will rarely want to call this function directly. Use
gnome-sound-playinstead for fire and forget sound playing.
- sample-name
- The name of the sample.
- filename
- The filename where the audio is stored.
- ret
- The esound sample_id or ‘-1’ if the sample was unable to be cached for esound.