raw audio in windows

[Jay]

So, are you saying this would be possible to do with the PlaySound
function?

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Ben Sizer wrote:
>
> > Not really. You'll have to convert it to .wav and then pass it to a
> > helper app.
> >
> > <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/nov04/hey1103.mspx>
>
> >>> import winsound
> >>> help(winsound)
> Help on module winsound:
>
> NAME
>     winsound
>
> FILE
>     c:\python24\dlls\winsound.pyd
>
> DESCRIPTION
>     PlaySound(sound, flags) - play a sound
>     SND_FILENAME - sound is a wav file name
>     SND_ALIAS - sound is a registry sound association name
>     SND_LOOP - Play the sound repeatedly; must also specify SND_ASYNC
>     SND_MEMORY - sound is a memory image of a wav file
>     SND_PURGE - stop all instances of the specified sound
>     SND_ASYNC - PlaySound returns immediately
>     SND_NODEFAULT - Do not play a default beep if the sound can not be found
>     SND_NOSTOP - Do not interrupt any sounds currently playing
>     SND_NOWAIT - Return immediately if the sound driver is busy
>
>     Beep(frequency, duration) - Make a beep through the PC speaker.
>
> FUNCTIONS
>     Beep(...)
>         Beep(frequency, duration) - a wrapper around the Windows Beep API
>
>         The frequency argument specifies frequency, in hertz, of the sound.
>         This parameter must be in the range 37 through 32,767.
>         The duration argument specifies the number of milliseconds.
>         On WinNT and 2000, the platform Beep API is used directly.  Else funky
>         code doing direct port manipulation is used; it's unknown whether that
>         will work on all systems.
>
>     MessageBeep(...)
>         MessageBeep(x) - call Windows MessageBeep(x). x defaults to MB_OK.
>
>     PlaySound(...)
>         PlaySound(sound, flags) - a wrapper around the Windows PlaySound API
>
>         The sound argument can be a filename, data, or None.
>         For flag values, ored together, see module documentation.
>
> DATA
>     MB_ICONASTERISK = 64L
>     MB_ICONEXCLAMATION = 48L
>     MB_ICONHAND = 16L
>     MB_ICONQUESTION = 32L
>     MB_OK = 0L
>     SND_ALIAS = 65536L
>     SND_APPLICATION = 128L
>     SND_ASYNC = 1L
>     SND_FILENAME = 131072L
>     SND_LOOP = 8L
>     SND_MEMORY = 4L
>     SND_NODEFAULT = 2L
>     SND_NOSTOP = 16L
>     SND_NOWAIT = 8192L
>     SND_PURGE = 64L
> 
> </F>