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Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker (Users)

posted by rCX, Maryland, USA, 04.05.2009, 18:21
(edited by rCX on 04.05.2009, 18:39)

For those of us who are unfortunate to have a exotic soundcard incompatible with soundblaster or AC97 (and DOS ). Here are a few programs that can play music through the internal speaker. Quality isn't that great but it is better than nothing. I will add this to the DR-DOS wiki soon.

* Digital Sound System or DSS. In DSS.ini to use the PC speaker change the following lines to...
[SoundDevice]
Device=8
Run HDPMI32.exe (Or something like it) and then DSS.exe. It can play *.mp3 and *.wav files of any size. It comes with it's own TUI and seems to work the best!

* cppsound can be used to play short short (<1MB) *.wav files. It seems to work for lower frequency (<20000Hz) encoding. I tested it for "PCM 8-bit 8000Hz" or "PCM 16-bit 11000Hz" encoding. To try it, run the driver ibmsnd.com and then demo.bat. It is open source

* SPKPLAY is also open source and and is simmilar to the last one. To test, just run spkdemo.exe

* SBPLAY plays *.wav files through speaker if no soundblaster is selected. To use add the following line to autoexec.bat...
SET BLASTER=NOSB

Didn't test the following...
* VOC-IT.c is C++ code to play *.voc and maybe *.wav files through PC speaker.

* WAV.PAS is pascal code to play *.wav files through internal speaker.

Hope this helps someone!

Complete thread:

• Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - rCX, 04.05.2009, 18:21 (Users)
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - RayeR, 04.05.2009, 23:10
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - Zyzzle, 04.05.2009, 23:38
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - Rugxulo, 05.05.2009, 08:10
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - tikbalang, 05.05.2009, 09:17
    • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - RayeR, 07.05.2009, 02:23
      • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - Zyzzle, 07.05.2009, 03:04
        • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - RayeR, 08.05.2009, 14:29
          • Playing Music/audio through PC Speaker (TMA's tbmod) - Rugxulo, 11.09.2009, 07:01
            • Playing Music/audio through PC Speaker (TMA's tbmod) - rr, 11.09.2009, 21:59
  • Playing Music/audio through the Internal Speaker - DOS386, 05.05.2009, 14:04