scott wrote:
>> Personally I'd love to implement something like that myself - but I 
>> don't have access to anything that can talk to the sound hardware. :-(
> 
> You could always just output a raw .wav file and then send it somewhere 
> to play it (eg mediaplayer or winamp, surely also a smaller command line 
> player somewhere out there).

Have you seen the format spec for the .WAV file format??

It's actually RIFF - a multilation of the Amiga IFF format with all the 
4-byte values incorrectly written backwards. (Hence "R" for "reverse".)

You can't just say "hey, here's some data". You have to include a header 
that describes - in the most retarded way imaginable - exactly what the 
layout of the payload is. (E.g., mono or stereo, 8-bit or 16-bit, signed 
or unsigned, etc.)

It's no mean feat to set all this up...



What I guess I *could* do is write a small Java application that accepts 
raw audio data over TCP and then writes it to the sound hardware. 
(Although talking to the sound hardware in Java isn't exactly easy 
either - it's a 12-step process of getting a factory factory factory 
that possibly yields a factory factory that can then be queried for the 
kinds of factories it knows how to produce... you get the picture.)

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