How to import sounds into a C program

[Gene]

Hi, I'm a college student taking CS class, and for a project, I want
to import some music or sound files into a program I wrote in C. I've
read some stuff about using sndPlaySound or PlaySound but I have no
idea how to implement these. If anyone has any suggestions as to how
this can be done, or if it can be done at all, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.

 

[Walter Roberson]

Hi, I'm a college student taking CS class, and for a project, I want
to import some music or sound files into a program I wrote in C. I've
read some stuff about using sndPlaySound or PlaySound but I have no
idea how to implement these. If anyone has any suggestions as to how
this can be done, or if it can be done at all, I'd appreciate it.

You can use the facilities of standard C to read music or sound
files into memory, as they are just binary files that can be
interpreted if you have sufficient patience and documentation.
However, there are no facilities in standard C to turn data
in memory into actual sound.

Neither sndPlaySound nor PlaySound are part of C itself. They
might be facilities provided by some particular operating system
or some third party library (that is operating system specific.)

Working with sound is inherently OS specific. You will need to
research this matter in your OS documentation or a newsgroup
that deals with your particular OS.

 

[Malcolm McLean]

Working with sound is inherently OS specific. You will need to
research this matter in your OS documentation or a newsgroup
that deals with your particular OS.

It's IO. So inherently tied to hardware, although the same sound could be a
compression wave in air, or an electrical impluse on a phone line, or some
sort of visual representation for deaf people.
However there is no reason why portable audio interfaces cannot be
developed.

 

[santosh]

It's IO. So inherently tied to hardware, although the same sound could be
a compression wave in air, or an electrical impluse on a phone line, or
some sort of visual representation for deaf people.
However there is no reason why portable audio interfaces cannot be
developed.

And they have been:

<http://www.google.com/search?&q=Portable+sound+API>

 

[Flash Gordon]

santosh wrote, On 11/08/07 12:33:

And they have been:

<http://www.google.com/search?&q=Portable+sound+API>

Although it is only portable to some systems. I can't, for example, see
mention of SCO, AIX or HPUX in the supported systems. I'm sure others
can find other systems not supported. It is also, obviously, beyond the
scope of standard C.