Re: Playing tone through speakers
* Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com> [2005 Jan 14 13:24 -0600]:
> On Friday 14 January 2005 12:35 pm, Rob Bochan wrote:
> > On Friday 14 January 2005 01:03 pm, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a utility that will play a continuous tone (specified
> > > frequency, I know there may be some drift) through the computer's
> > > speakers?
> >
> > The beep package may be something to look into, more info at:
> > http://johnath.com/beep/README
>
> That would have worked, except that I didn't ask the right question (e.g. you
> answered perfectly the question I asked - but it wasn't what I was looking
> for)
>
> When I said speakers, I was thinking of the speakers attached to the sound
> card (I'd *ALMOST* forgotten that the PC itself had a speaker). Thanks for
> the response, and I apologize for my slip.
>
> So the correct question would be: Does anyone know of a utility that would
> play a continuous tone of a specified frequency through the speakers attached
> to my SoundBlaster Live?
Check out the Tone generator plugin on XMMS. I've played with it some
and I think it'll do what you want. It is part of the base xmms
package. Just Ctl-P for prefences and scoll down through the list to
Tone Generator. Click the About button for instructions on generating
the tone.
HTH,
- Nate >>
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