Can you play a sound using a script in Photoshop?

[wckdtall]

I'd like to play an audio alert once my script finishes running, I looked up some options online, but I can only find reference to how to play sound using javascript and html5.

[JJMack]

beep();

[wckdtall]

Thanks, but I'm looking to play a sound from a file rather than just the default error noise, any pointers?

[Philip_Cord]

You could play a music file, as an example.

var music = new File("/E/Music/Country/Sundown.mp3");
if(music.exists) music.execute();

[JJMack]

Then you should have asked how to play a sound file rather then play and alert.

try{

   var Sound = new File("C:/Windows/Media/tada.wav");

    Sound.execute();

}catch(e){

alert("Can Not Play Sound");

};

This depends on system file associations. If there is a player associated with the file extension it should open and play the sound. It may also remain open after the sound is over, or may loop playing the sound repeatly

[wckdtall]

Awesome! This is definitely more of the idea, although it opens up windows media player, to play. It would be used in a batch, so I wouldn't necessarily want to have to open a program every time, but it does make sense as I'm unaware if there's a default background player for PC and mac. Otherwise I did find documentation on flash, and in using Window, and adding flash player to it, I'm able to get the desired sound to play. However I tried using a relative path from the script to the swf, and it came back with an error. I had to place the swf on my desktop to test correctly. Is there a way to use relative paths?

  win.preview = win.add ('flashplayer',undefined,'~/Desktop/test.swf');

[JJMack]

You need the full path if it relative to the script you can get the scripts path

alert(File($.fileName).parent.fsName);

[shape55]

I tried adding this to the end of the following script, but no sound plays after it finishes. Am I missing something?

for (var i = 0; i < 2; i++) app.doAction("Pixel Crop+Scale Loop","shape");beep();

[Kukurykus]

It works for me.

[shape55]

Yeah, it's working for me now too.  I thnk there was an issue w/ my system sound when I tried it before as I have since rebooted and now get the system alert sound at the end of the script, which is what I assume is supposed to happen.

[wckdtall · Accepted solution]

Solution on Mac:

try{
app.system("afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Glass.aiff")
}catch(e){
};