Soundplay not working

[scriptor2016]

Hi

Soundplay has stopped working on my system. I've tried 2 different approaches to play a .wav file:

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z::
soundplay, C:\Click.wav

and

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FilePath := "C:\Click.wav"
DllCall("winmm.dll\PlaySound", AStr, FilePath, uint, 0, uint, 0)

Every script in my collection that used soundplay has stopped playing the sounds all of a sudden. Soundbeep works, however.

My guess is that it's either something to do with AHK or is it perhaps a soundcard issue? I have ensured that AHK's volume is at 100% via the sound control panel.

Otherwise, all music/sounds, etc. play normally on my PC as they should - there are no other audio problems or issues on my computer.

Is this a familiar problem with a fix?

Thank you

[gregster]

If it worked before and stopped suddenly but you didn't update AHK... it most likely has a non-AHK reason. (I know of no related bug.)
Have you tried it with a mp3 instead?

Is Errorlevel = 1 ?
Does SoundPlay *-1 beep?

[scriptor2016]

No, SoundPlay *-1 does not make any sounds. MP3 files don't work either.

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z::
soundplay, C:\Click.wav
SoundPlay *-1
 

if ErrorLevel = 1
msgbox, 1
 
if ErrorLevel = 0
msgbox, 0

the messagebox returns 0.

This is bizarre - all other sound is totally fine on my system.

[jeeswg]

You could try this, and see what the results are.

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q:: ;test PlaySound
;SND_FILENAME := 0x20000 ;source: playsoundapi.h
vPath := "C:\Windows\Media\tada.wav"
vRet := DllCall("winmm\PlaySound" (A_IsUnicode?"W":"A"), Str,vPath, Ptr,0, UInt,0x20000)
MsgBox, % vRet "`r`n" A_LastError
return

[scriptor2016]

There is no sound.

The messagebox returns:

1
0

[jeeswg]

- I got 1 and 0 and the sound played. Btw you should check to confirm that the file actually exists, because I got 1 and 0 when I changed the path to a non-existent filename.
- You could try AHK 64-bit and AHK 32-bit.
- Which OS is it?
- Did you try restarting the computer?
- I don't really have more to say beyond what I've said. Best of luck.

[scriptor2016]

thanks jeeswg, appreciated. I am on Windows7 64-Bit. I am running AHK version 1.1.22.03 (Unicode 32-bit). This is actually a problem that happened many months ago, but only now am I tackling it. Soundplay used to work perfectly, but somewhere along the lines something has gone wrong. Restarting the PC makes no difference.

Should I be upgrading/changing my version of AHK maybe?

[jeeswg]

- You could try downloading a newer version, and running your script with that. (I have no particular reason to think it'll work, but it's possible.)
- It's also possible to try SoundPlay in AutoIt or try using the Winapi with another programming language.
- (Other things would be checking the volume settings, and mentioning if you had any hunches re. possible causes.)

[scriptor2016]

alright, I will try these few things and report back

[jeeswg]

- Btw I think in some situations, the PC has been so busy that SoundPlay has been delayed. (I had a script that detected window events and signalled those events via SoundPlay.)
- In which case it's feasible that some amount of activity by another program or programs on the PC would delay/affect SoundPlay.

[scriptor2016]

this is nuts. This works:

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q::
Soundbeep

but this doesn't work:

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q::
SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\ding.wav

[jeeswg]

So, some long shot ideas might be: closing other programs, running the script as admin, trying 64-bit/32-bit AHK. And trying say AutoIt or another programming language, might confirm that the problem is not to do with AutoHotkey.

[scriptor2016]

Okay, here's a very strange update:

I own a Logitech Headset, model #H800

If I run:

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Run, mmsys.cpl

it opens my system output sound properties. My default playback mode is:

Speakers
Realtek High Definition Audio
Default Device

and in this mode, my system sound works perfectly. However, AHK will not play any sounds in this mode.


BUT- if I change my output sound properties to:

Speakers
Logi H800 Headset
Default Device


...then I can hear all AHK sounds using soundplay through my headset.

This is totally bizarre. What could be causing this?

[scriptor2016]

well, looks like it was a bug in the soundcard settings. I switched back and forth between different output settings (in the soundcard software, NOT in the "Run, mmsys.cpl" sound properties panel). Toggling back and forth through all the available output options (speakers, headset, digital output, digital optical output, etc etc) seems to have reset something - and now it works. Strange but at least I have soundplay working again.

Thanks for all the help guys