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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:20 pm

Is it possible to play sounds off a websight instead of off a local drive?

Say if i wanted to play this sound file.

Other that throwing out a #URL, cause that would get sloppy with tabs on he browser.

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:54 pm

Oddly enough, if you have the file locally (like i do with the above) the URL address will fire it, but if you dont, such as in the following example, it wont.

#PLAY "http://soundfxnow.com/soundfx/sheep-baa.mp3"

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:42 pm

Sorry but the #PLAY command just calls the Windows DirectSound API. It doesn't have any built-in way to play a remote sound. You'll need to use #URL to run your browser which knows how to play remote files. Although keep in mind that the browser is still usually downloading the file to a temp directory before playing it anyway.

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:52 pm

Any chance that the above code could attempt to download said file into the appropriate local MUD folder?

Since it already plays the file if it is located locally, this would make it easier to host sound files for use in packages distributed in the package library.

With a prompt to the user of course: The file "blah.blah" was not found locally, would you like to download it?

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:27 am

You might try playing around with MSP syntax. You can use the #SHOW command to display a MSP command and using the URL argument you might get it to download and play the file.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:06 pm

The help files really give no examples on how to do this... could you?
Searching the forum had no results on MSP.

http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/msp.htm

That suggests that only .wav or .midi files are suppoerted.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:43 pm

to play the above file example you gave type this on the command line.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:06 pm

Sweet, thanks a ton.
According to the documentation it will only download if its not local anyway, so using the long version everywhere should be just fine, right?

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:08 pm

I see no problem with using the long version everywhere. it still plays the sound just fine it seems.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:15 pm

Also if you are going to put this sort of thing in a shared package where you don't know what other users MSP settings may be you should probably include the following two commands in the onConnect event or somewhere.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:21 pm

Odd, i cant get subsequent uses of the long command to work.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:25 pm

Not sure what's going on there. It works fine for me, and I don't see any MSP pref options that seem to make it not work. I even shut CMUD down and restarted and the long format still seems to work fine.

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:30 pm

I reboot my system and now it works fine.