Re: playing multiple audio files simultaneously

2017-03-29 Thread Ray via use-livecode
I'm also sticking with LC 8.1. I thought there was a stable version of 9 but evidently not yet. On 3/29/2017 4:13 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote: Using “wait” is generally not advisable… I just have a list of all players and then give them all a pause command or set their filenam

Re: playing multiple audio files simultaneously

2017-03-29 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Using “wait” is generally not advisable… I just have a list of all players and then give them all a pause command or set their filenames to empty before playing the new audio. I saw some instability in LC 9 (crashing), so I’m sticking with 8 until those issues are worked out. pb On Mar 29, 20

Re: playing multiple audio files simultaneously

2017-03-29 Thread Ray via use-livecode
Peter - this is working well now. Thanks for the link, very informative. On 3/29/2017 2:34 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote: What I’m doing now is… I’m using the Livecode 8.1 series Converting my QT files to wmv and putting those in the same directory as the QT files Using the platfo

Re: playing multiple audio files simultaneously

2017-03-29 Thread Ray via use-livecode
Thanks Peter - I'll look into 9.0 and see how it works. I can't imagine an improvement in 8.x is not retained in 9.x. To your point, I'm assuming you can't use: wait until sound() = "done" with messages in order to avoid playing sounds simultaneously. Right? On 3/29/2017 2:34 PM, Pete

Re: playing multiple audio files simultaneously

2017-03-29 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
What I’m doing now is… I’m using the Livecode 8.1 series Converting my QT files to wmv and putting those in the same directory as the QT files Using the platform property to detect the user’s OS Setting the file suffix to .mov or .wmv depending on that result It works well. My issue is wanting to

Re: playing multiple audio files simultaneously

2017-03-29 Thread Ray via use-livecode
Yes - 7.7.9. I re-installed Quicktime and got it working, playing sounds simultaneously, but I'm still somewhat apprehensive since Quicktime has been discontinued for so long now. Do you know of anything else Peter or are we pretty much resigned to Quicktime on the desktop for simultaneous so

Re: playing multiple audio files simultaneously

2017-03-29 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
You do have QuickTime installed on your Windows machine? …if you are trying to play a QT file. Peter On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Ray via use-livecode wrote: > I've lo0oked into playing multiple audio files simultaneously, for Windows > and Mac desktops, and come up with nothing but issues