On 8/16/21, Roel Schroeven <r...@roelschroeven.net> wrote:
>
> We're not necessarily talking about the PC speaker here: (almost) all
> computers these days have sound cards (mostly integrated on the
> motherboard) that are much more capable than those one-bit PC speakers.
Yes, the PC speaker beep does not get used in Windows 7+. The beep
device object is retained for compatibility, but it redirects the
request to a task in the user's session (which could be a remote
desktop session) that generates a WAV buffer in memory and plays it
via PlaySound(). You can do this yourself if you need a more precise
frequency. For example:
import io
import math
import wave
import winsound
def beep(frequency, duration):
'''Play a beep at frequency (hertz) for duration (milliseconds).'''
fs = 48000
f = 2 * math.pi * frequency / fs
n = round(duration * fs / 1000)
b = io.BytesIO()
w = wave.Wave_write(b)
w.setnchannels(1)
w.setsampwidth(2)
w.setframerate(fs)
w.writeframes(b''.join(round(32767 * math.sin(f*i)).to_bytes(
2, 'little', signed=True) for i in range(n)))
w.close()
winsound.PlaySound(b.getbuffer(), winsound.SND_MEMORY)
Play a beep at 277.1826 Hz for one second:
beep(277.1826, 1000)
I'm tone deaf, I suppose, since I need a difference of about 3 cycles
to perceive it, let alone a fraction of a cycle.
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