Re: Sounds -- .au, .wav, or both?

Some time ago, SL Baur wrote... |+ | What should be done about sounds? It's been rumored that MS Windows | doesn't grok .au -- XEmacs/Linux (and I presume BSD) sound support | handles both .wav and .au so I don't particularly care either way. The rumor is almost right. There is an API call PlaySound, which is able to play wav files only. Windows does support .au files, but only with DirectX libraries. This is an ActiveX (ex OLE) technology, as most modern techs from Microsoft are, and XEmacs currently is completely OLE unaware. It is impossible to support say .au in the short terms, for this release. If it will prove a real problem, I could try to play an .au programatically. I'm not too anxious to do this; I would make this as a last resort thing, ok? Kirill