Status of sound support in Vim

[Lifepillar]

What is the status of +sound in Vim? In particular, is anyone working on
adding support for macOS?

The manual has examples mentioning Ubuntu, so I infer that Ubuntu should
be supported, but I cannot get any sound. I have tried with .wav, .oga
and .ogg files, so I don't think it's a format issue. Audio is working
in my platform, as I can play sound files with ffplay and other tools
from the command line. Using Vim 8.1.2269 with +sound. Any idea how to
troubleshoot that?

Thanks,
Life.

[Dominique Pellé]

Sound works for me on Xubuntu-18.04.
I don't really use it, it works fine with e.g. the demo game:
https://github.com/vim/killersheep

For macOs, I see that ":help todo" has this item:

=== BEGIN QUOTE :help todo ===
Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
=== END QUOTE ===

Regards
Dominique

[Bram Moolenaar]

Right, it requires someone to find out the way to implement it on Mac.
It should be able to play .mp3 or .ogg file. Hopefully both.

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[Lifepillar]

On 2020-07-05, Bram Moolenaar <Br...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
> Dominique wrote:
>
>> Lifepillar wrote:
>>
>> > What is the status of +sound in Vim? In particular, is anyone working on
>> > adding support for macOS?
>> >
>> > The manual has examples mentioning Ubuntu, so I infer that Ubuntu should
>> > be supported, but I cannot get any sound. I have tried with .wav, .oga
>> > and .ogg files, so I don't think it's a format issue. Audio is working
>> > in my platform, as I can play sound files with ffplay and other tools
>> > from the command line. Using Vim 8.1.2269 with +sound. Any idea how to
>> > troubleshoot that?
>>
>> Sound works for me on Xubuntu-18.04.
>> I don't really use it, it works fine with e.g. the demo game:
>> https://github.com/vim/killersheep

Apparently, there is something wrong in my box then. Thanks for
double checking... and for the link!

>> For macOs, I see that ":help todo" has this item:
>>
>> === BEGIN QUOTE :help todo ===
>> Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
>> === END QUOTE ===
>
> Right, it requires someone to find out the way to implement it on Mac.

I guess that it is not trivial, but I remain hopeful.

Life.

[Lifepillar]

On 2020-07-05, Lifepillar <lifep...@lifepillar.me> wrote:
> On 2020-07-05, Bram Moolenaar <Br...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>>
>> Dominique wrote:
>>
>>> Lifepillar wrote:
>>>
>>> > What is the status of +sound in Vim? In particular, is anyone working on
>>> > adding support for macOS?
>>> >
>>> > The manual has examples mentioning Ubuntu, so I infer that Ubuntu should
>>> > be supported, but I cannot get any sound. I have tried with .wav, .oga
>>> > and .ogg files, so I don't think it's a format issue. Audio is working
>>> > in my platform, as I can play sound files with ffplay and other tools
>>> > from the command line. Using Vim 8.1.2269 with +sound. Any idea how to
>>> > troubleshoot that?
>>>
>>> Sound works for me on Xubuntu-18.04.
>>> I don't really use it, it works fine with e.g. the demo game:
>>> https://github.com/vim/killersheep
>
> Apparently, there is something wrong in my box then. Thanks for
> double checking... and for the link!

For the record, this was something as silly as having System Sounds
turned off in Ubuntu's Sound Settings (:blush:)

Life.

[rwmit...@gmail.com]

On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 4:05:41 AM UTC-4 Lifepillar wrote:

On 2020-07-05, Lifepillar <lifep> wrote:

>>> Lifepillar wrote:
>>>
>>> > What is the status of +sound in Vim? In particular, is anyone working on
>>> > adding support for macOS?

For the record, this was something as silly as having System Sounds
turned off in Ubuntu's Sound Settings (:blush:)

Life. 

I'm confused.

I thought the initial question was specifically asking about sound on macOS ( the operating system, not the hardware)

but the solution was a setting in Ubuntu, a different operating system.

[Lifepillar]

In fact, I have asked two questions:

1. What is the status on macOS? (Bram: still on todo list, no ETA)
2. As +sound in Linux is implemented, why am I not getting any sound?
(Answering myself: silly overview on my part)

Life.