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listening via motherboard speaker

I would like to make foobar send the sound output to be played through the motherboard speaker. Is this possible?
I am using windows 2000 professional, and foobar 0.8.3

I searched through the forum, but I didnt find a reply, so I hope this is not a repeat question!

thanks!

listening via motherboard speaker

Reply #1 –
Quote from: aria on
I would like to make foobar send the sound output to be played through the motherboard speaker. Is this possible?
I am using windows 2000 professional, and foobar 0.8.3

I searched through the forum, but I didnt find a reply, so I hope this is not a repeat question!

thanks!


I would imagine this would not be possible as I think the motherboard speaker connects to an output which is only capable of outputting the harsh beeps you know of.  In other words the motherboard speaker inst rigged up to a sound device capable of processing more complex audio like music.

However that said, you may be able to plug your motherboard speaker into a different output, an output of your actual sound card.

listening via motherboard speaker

Reply #2 –
Thanks for the reply!  From what you wrote it seems that I cant listen to music without connecting a headset or speakers, correct?

What I wanted was to be able to listen to music without using either a headphone or speakers when I wished. The quality of the music or the volume doesnt matter as such.

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Reply #3 –
Long time ago, when soundcards was an extra, and not so cheap, I used to install a special driver for redirect audio output to the internal speaker.
But my OS was Windows 3.11 !!!!!!!
Some time later, I tried the driver in a w95 system, and was still ok. Maybe works with win 2000, but I don't have names, links, references or hints for you.
But look around, maybe you are luky.

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Reply #4 –
yeah I'll give it a go , thanks for replying

listening via motherboard speaker

Reply #5 –
The very old kids game PC Genius was able to output sound through the pc speaker but the sound quality was worse than AM. I think it only accepts specific low sample rates.

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Reply #6 –
Do a Google search for "pc speaker audio driver" and you'll find several drivers that may potentially work.  I know of several Dell PC's that can output audio through the internal speaker (with harsh quality, of course) but i don't know what driver is used to enable it.  HTH

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Reply #7 –
Those Dells dont use separate drivers for the internal speaker and soundcard. There's only one driver (SoundMax Internal Audio) and when nothing else is connected to the soundcard the internal speaker is used. Seems to be a feature of the mainboard.

listening via motherboard speaker

Reply #8 –
Quote from: aria on
I would like to make foobar send the sound output to be played through the motherboard speaker. Is this possible?
I am using windows 2000 professional, and foobar 0.8.3

I searched through the forum, but I didnt find a reply, so I hope this is not a repeat question!

thanks!


For the love of all that is holy and good, WHY?  The internal speaker is for making "beep" and not much else.  If your music is all "beep" "beep" this is no problem, but I can't imagine what real music through PC internal speakers even sounds like.

You can buy $2 passive speakers (no power needed) if you have no money for a decent set of speakers.  You can find these sort of speakers at any electronics shop or retail store.

There's a Wikipedia page on this topic.  Programmers used to have to go through special tricks to make decent "beep" "beep" music on internal speakers back in the 90's.  And that's just "beep" "beep" music!  There's also a link to a person's page at the bottom which shows you how to play WAV files on the internal speaker, but it seems the page was only updated to Windows 9x era.  I tried one of them and I couldn't even install the driver in Windows 2K SP4.

listening via motherboard speaker

Reply #9 –
Quote from: nawhead on
Quote from: aria on

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For the love of all that is holy and good, WHY?  The internal speaker is for making "beep" and not much else.  If your music is all "beep" "beep" this is no problem, but I can't imagine what real music through PC internal speakers even sounds like.

You can buy $2 passive speakers (no power needed) if you have no money for a decent set of speakers.  You can find these sort of speakers at any electronics shop or retail store.

There's a Wikipedia page on this topic.  Programmers used to have to go through special tricks to make decent "beep" "beep" music on internal speakers back in the 90's.  And that's just "beep" "beep" music!  There's also a link to a person's page at the bottom which shows you how to play WAV files on the internal speaker, but it seems the page was only updated to Windows 9x era.  I tried one of them and I couldn't even install the driver in Windows 2K SP4.
Dude, don't be that guy. :) I'd say it'd be cool to get my server to play some tunes from the internal speaker when something happens. Not sure that the best solution is to have foobar do it though. But if tinkering with stuff like this makes someone happy it's not out place to crush their plans now is it.

And something that has to be mentioned when talking about the internal speaker sounds is Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Dreams. Those games could make beautiful music flow through the bulk of ones computer. Digital Illusion was (and probably is) the kings of pc-speaker music. ;) I might be remembering what I want to remember though, it was quite some time ago but that music was no mere beep beep.

edit: I seem to have met my match regarding long membership/low post-count... ;)
edit2: Bah. I read like I sleep. Pinball Fantasies was apparently already mentioned in the wiki-article. Ah well, can't hurt to mention it again. ;)

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Reply #10 –
I wanted to play some short tunes as notifications for certain events (these could be system or custom defined).

I didnt mean to say that I wanted to listen to music