I tried this with Winsound on NT 4 SP5 wks with following results.

Used tried and true Trapped in Convert composition by Richard Boulanger for 
this test.

Remain Active & Play at end unchecked:
Compiled piece and put press a key to close dialog, pressed enter and Winsound 
closed.  Played results in wave player, success.

Remain Active & Play at end checked:
Compiled piece but DID NOT play the piece when finished.  Bug it
Click on logging window, hit a key and up pops the Winsound control dialog.
Played results in wave player, success.

Remain Active checked & Play at end unchecked:
Compile piece, press a key and winsound closed,
Played results in wave player, success.

The only place I noticed weirdness:
Remain Active unchecked & Play at end checked:
Compiled piece, Winsound started playing results, success.
Was about to hit a key to stop playback when I noticed Winsound logging window 
title bar says: "Playing.... any character to con(some weird characters)"  Bug 
it.

DPW 266i w/ ESS 1888 onboard, 128MB RAM, 2x 4GB drives w/ plenty of space.  
Clean US NT 4 SP5 install with very few apps installed yet as this is at new 
station for day job.

I did have Winsound lock completely when I used (not at home, don't have name 
of writer, but is the person that's been putting the drums, strings etc. up 
lately) String_11.orc/sco with Remain Active and Play at end checked.  BTW, it 
says Winsound 3.58 on this version fresh download from 
ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/newest today.


rich out
on with the Csound QA Test crew.  ;-)


>From: Ben McAllister 
>Hi,
>
>	Well, there wasn't much concrete feedback there on the NT issue.  Some
>folks HAVE experienced what I have, and some haven't.  
>
>	For the folks who have Winsound running smoothly on their machines:  
Could
>we get an idea of your system attributes?
>
>	To whomever codes the Winsound app: what were the testing conditions 
for
>the app?  Win 95?  I also have had difficulties under Win 98, and wrote to
>the list about those last Oct or Nov.   I'm a programmer, though not
>familiar with the subtle differences between Win 95 and NT.  I assume this
>could be part of the problem.  Also: are there known conflicts between
>Winsound and other programs?  Thanks.
>
>Ben Mcallister
>