Hi, I was wondering how to set a julia program to beep or play some tones or music when a long program finally finishes running. (Googling this question leads to recommendations for old packages, like AudioIO, which aren’t maintained and don’t install properly.) Thanks!

Right, I suspect this is related to spaces in a path with powershell ( see this discussion ). I think the following will catch Windows folders with and without spaces: function play_a_tune2(SoundFileName1) script = ```\$sound = New-Object System.Media.SoundPlayer\; \$sound.SoundLo…

[image] josephmarturano: raw"C:\\Data Area\\Folder\\file_example_WAV_1MG.wav" That doesn’t look right to me. If you have raw"", then you shouldn’t need to do \\ to get a single backslash. As written, this will put literal double backslashes into the path. I’m not sure how Windows handles that…

Good idea Joseph, but changing the \\ back to \ doesn’t fix it. Oddly, something like FileName = "C:\\Data Area\\Folder\\file_example_WAV_1MG.wav" IS working for commands like writedlm and readdlm, but NOT for Play_A_Tune here. Strange!

Yes Joseph, that does work in both cases, thanks! Not sure why you’re hearing elephants though, might want to get your ears checked.

using RCall beep() = begin R""" beepr::beep() """ end beep()

AFAIK R’s beep simply sends an \a to the terminal — see @anon94023334 ’s much simper solution for this above.

I’m pretty much good on this topic, jm’s “play_a_tune2” solution above worked; the only thing I can’t seem to do is set the filepath equal to a String variable, and then call it with play_a_tune2(variable); I have to call it with play_a_tune(<whole messy file path>). (But that’s not a big problem.) …

println("\007") doesn’t work for me on Ubuntu 18.04, but after: sudo apt install beep sudo modprobe pcspkr the awesome power of beep is available, assuming that you have an old fashion motherboard speaker installed: run(`beep -l 1000`)

Most distros don’t enable the bell events on a desktop by default. Eg for PulseAudio something like PulseAudio - ArchWiki can be used to re-enable it. On Linux, I would just call a command line player with a path.

There are Linux commands such as spd-say: run(`spd-say 'Stay alert!'`) Although using this is not advisable if you are afraid of robotic voices.

Paul, Tamas, Zlatan, I am running Julia in atom in Windows 7 & Windows 10 on my 2 computers. I don’t know how to implement any of those last 3 suggestions in Windows.

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