[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Playing WAV files on nokia

[From: Santtu Lakkala]

Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> Someone mentioned calling hildon_play_system_sound("soundfile.wav") in a
> prior post, but I can't seem to find the header file for it in my
> scratchbox. 
> 
> Am I missing a library? And if so, what's its name?

It should be in /usr/include/hildon-widgets/hildon-system-sound.h, which 
belongs to hildon-libs-dev (>= 0.9.52), older versions don't have this.

You can also use esd_play_file("myprogname", "soundfile.wav", 0); if 
play_system_sound is not available. This however does not respect the 
system sound level setting and blocks until the sound has been played.

If you want nonblocking audio that's not a system sound, combination of:

int esd = esd_open_sound(NULL);
int sample = esd_file_cache(esd, "myprogname", "soundfile.wav");
esd_sample_play(esd, sample);
esd_sample_free(esd, sample);
esd_close(esd);

should do the trick.

-- 
Santtu