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Play Sound

Play Sound - 1.6.6

simple, scriptable audio player

All Time: (4.8)
Version 1.6.6: (5.0)
Selected Version: 1.6.6
Release Date: 2007-07-29
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 1.6.6): 1,837
Downloads (all versions): 25,472

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Product Description:

Play Sound is a simple, no-fuss sound player for Mac OS X. It supports QuickTime sound files (for example, AIFF or MP3 files), Classic Mac OS System 7 sound files (files with a file type of 'sfil' that contain 'snd ' resources), or any 'snd ' resources embedded into any file. You can play an unlimited number of sounds concurrently or one at a time. You can loop sounds, repeat sounds, play specified portions of sounds, control the volume of sounds played, pause and continue sound play, and press the Escape or Command-Period keys to abort sound play.


To use Play Sound as a simple sound file player, simply drag and drop the sound file(s) onto the Play Sound icon in the Mac OS Finder. Better yet, you can configure the Mac OS X Finder to automatically open sound files with Play Sound whenever you double-click them (see Using Play Sound As a Sound Player in the documentation for easy instructions showing how to do this).


Play Sound is fully scriptable, allowing AppleScript writers to use simple, easy-to-understand English syntax to play most QuickTime-supported sound files, Classic Mac OS System 7 sound files, and even 'snd ' resources that are embedded directly in script applets. To script Play Sound, you call it from any AppleScript script or application.

What's new in this version:

  • Fixed a bug in "from position" and "to position" parameter handling that caused the specified values to be read incorrectly, resulting in Play Sound playing the wrong portions of sounds, or not playing the sounds at all when these parameters were specified.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Play Sound to generate a "parameter error" if the "from position" parameters was specified but the "to position" parameters was not specified.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher (Universal)

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Feedback Summary:

Version 1.6.6:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (5.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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Play Sound ReviewPerfect for it's purpose but ... - Version: 1.6.7, 11/21/2008 08:25AM PST

roro01
... the developer should realize that we are not busy playing system sounds 24 hours a day - it still uses about 10M of memory (though 0 CPU) when not being used. I hope the developer will add a small "drag onto" window and an icon in the dock when the application is running.
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Play Sound Usage TipQuitting the application - Version: 1.6.7, 11/20/2008 10:57AM PST

roro01
There is no need for this faceless application to be running continuously in the background, as the developer suggests, as long as you have DragThing. The application will launch when you drop the first sound file onto its icon and will stay open for ever in the background. However, if you have DragThing you can drag the file onto its alias in the DragThing dock and then you can easily quit it in DragThing after you're done with it.
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Play Sound Reviewthank YOU! - Version: 1.6.6, 7/30/2007 01:59AM PST

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subjectivetruthx
I cannot imagine using my mac without this. The throttle hold itunes puts on sounds is horrid. When I switched to OsX in 2002 the loss of just playing a sound via the finder was a huge problem for me. Ever since Play Sound came out I've been a happy user.

Just a note to those who don't know it, hit command-. to stop a sound if you need to.

I've never had a problem with this player. Thanks again.
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