Force quitting sound(y)

Hello,

How can I force quit the sound function if I accidentally played a 44100 hz file with the default hz?

Control - C doesn't seem to work and the only way is through the ctrl-alt-del

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Yes, ctrl-alt-del if you are in MS Windows. control-c is not active until the hard-coded routine returns.

Might I suggest that the lesson here is not to use sound()? You can use http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/audioplayer.html

[Jan]

+1 for the audioplayer.

[Daniel Shub]

If you do not need the extra control, I think sound might be "better" than audioplayer. For example, in Linux, sound is implemented with audioplayer, but with Windows sound is implemented using a mex file called playsnd. This makes me think that TMW know something about the internal workings of audioplayer/playsnd.

[Walter Roberson]

audioplayer has a "stop" method. sound() does not. If being able to cancel the playing is important, then sound() is out of the running.

[Daniel Shub]

For the current question I agree that the flexibility of audioplayer is beneficial. My reaction was to the "the lesson here is not to use sound()" which I read as suggesting audioplayer was always as good as or better than sound.