Re: WaveOut and SndPlay

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Hm, I thought we are talking about somewhat named "SndPlay.exe"
and "WaveOut messages", something that is confusing me the
whole month :)


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Short answer:
The sndPlay APIs are designed to take a wave file and play it directly to
the speakers. They're really just designed for playing simple beeps and
keyclicks, and in general have some fairly serious limitations (only one
sound can be playing at a time, the entire file is buffered in system
memory before being played, you get no control over volume, start/stop,
etc.).

The Wave APIs are lower-level audio APIs. The wave APIs require you to do
all your own file parsing and buffer management, but they give you total
control over how your audio is played.






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