Using PlaySound CMM
  
PlaySound CMM lets you play soundfiles directly from the Finder, without having to open any application, then goes away by itself.

   


|||||||||  About Contextual Menus

Under OS8, in the Finder, if you control-click on a file's icon, a 'contextual menu' of things you can do to or with the file will pop up.  The Finder ships with built-in items like 'Move To Trash' and 'Copy'; PlaySound CMM adds items for playing sound files.
 
|||||||||  Playing Sounds

With PlaySound CMM installed, if you control-click 
on a sound file, one of the items in the contextual 
menu will be 'Play Sound'.  Just select 'Play Sound,' 
and the sound will play.  Click the mouse or press a 
key to stop the sound.  

The Play Sound item won't appear if you control-
click on a sound file in any format that it can't read, 
or if you control-click on a file that isn't a sound.  
(As always, you can play System sound files by 
double-clicking it).

|||||||||  Multiple Selections

If you select more than one sound file before 
control-clicking, then PlaySound CMM will play all 
of them, one after another, in the Finder's current sort order.  (Note that the sounds are not necessarily 
played in the same order in which you selected them.)  With a multiple selection, a mouse click or keypress 
will stop playback of the current sound file and take you to the next one.

|||||||||  Sound File Formats Supported

Sound Designer II:  8-bit & 16-bit Linear
WAVE:                     8-bit & 16-bit Linear
AIFF/AIFC:              8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit Linear; 8-bit MACE 3:1 and 6:1; 
                               16-bit IMA 4:1; 16-bit Mu-Law; 16-bit RT29
AU:                          8-bit Mu-Law

|||||||||  Go to the next chapter for info on
|||||||||  Registering PlaySound CMM.