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Hi All,

A few years ago I wrote my own program for launching sound effects in a theatre.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l265/adrianwadey/SoundNow1Screenshot.png

It runs on any windows machine and allows you to play any wav file, you can launch one after the other and they will mix live (e.g. you could play a long rain clip and then play thunder when you need it).

Following a few computer problems I thought I'd lost it, but the other day I found an early version with source code. I am considering turning it into an open source project as I suspect there are people out there who could use it and others who could add features that I don't have time to work on.

Are people interested in this?

Is there anyone that has started an open source project that could give me some pointers as to where to start and what I need to be aware of (I appreciate these forums may not be the best startin place)?

Has anyone already done this?

Adrian

Sure,

Say me where to get the source code,
I will give you some recommendations or optimizations.

I wrote something similar - also for my private use;
I used it to play sounds during our (horror) role playing sessions, using 6 to 8 speaker.
Yet I had some different design - it is a console application, so that I can run it in fullscreen and have a dark display (laptop) -- bright GUIs and mouse control is not applicable in a (meant to be) dark room and quick interactions (your hotkey button seems to address the latter though).

It furthermore is fed with simple scripts (anglescript) since I had some effects (moving sound from one to another speaker, ...)

Although I don't know your target audience (meaning target systems) my advice would be to be platform independent (windows, linux - I would even think of Mac as well since many creative programs are there)