I've just found this myself - a wee buglet in the new auto-extension
facility in that the special names are not checked for. A second wee
buglet actually provides a temporary workaround in that 'WAV' is checked
for twice, when the second check should be for AIF, so that if you set
the outfile type as AIFF, 'devaudio' works as it should!

[except that on my NT system Winsound hangs at the start of playback,
while Win95 seems to manage OK - ah, the joys of multiple OSes!]

Richard Dobson


"Job M. van Zuijlen" wrote:
> 
> It used to be that when you specified devaudio as output filename in
> Winsound the output would be sent directly to the sound card (equivalent
> to -odevaudio on the command line).  In 3.54 it works for the command
> line, but it no longer works in Winsound because Winsound seems to
> automatically add an extension to the filename (e.g., .wav) and write to
> the file devaudio.wav, which is not what I want.  I remember that there
> was a discussion a while ago about adding file extensions by default.
> Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention, because the problem I describe
> above is why you do not want file extensions added.
> 
> Anyone else had this problem?  Any suggestions?  Thanks.
> 
> Job van Zuijlen

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