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Folks:
We've received a request to change the way sound notifications work (the way they're played), and we want to know if anyone would care or notice. This proposal would only affect the way sounds are played when a new sound notification arrives while the previous is still playing.
Currently, InterMapper interrupts the currently-playing sound when a new sound notification is triggered. Thus you'll sometimes hear a stuttered sound, like, "Ya-Ya-Ya-Yahooooo!" when four devices come back up at the same time.
It has been requested that we change this behavior to play each sound in full.
The requestor uses text-to-speech, and it's important to hear the full sound;
interrupting it clips the end of the message, losing the meaning. But we're wary
of queuing up multiple (maybe dozens of) "Yahoo's" and forcing you to listen
'til they're all done.
New Proposal
The proposal is that a) InterMapper always play the full sound notification, and
b) InterMapper would only queue a single copy of each identical sound
notification (dropping duplicates). When a new one arrives, InterMapper would
scan the list of sound notifications waiting to be played, and if it finds an
exact duplicate, the new one will be ignored (dropped). That way, only a single
copy would be played. Examples:
- InterMapper will continue to play sounds in the order they arrive.
- A number of "Yahoo!"s occuring simultaneously would cause only one to be
played; the others would be discarded.
- Suppose a Yahoo was playng, and a Beep was in the list to be played next. A
new Yahoo would be ignored. (InterMapper would scan the entire list, and discard
the duplicate.)
- If the first "Yahoo!" had just finished, then a second would play immediately.
- InterMapper would test for duplicates by comparing the sound file to be
played. A "Web server down" text to speech would be treated as different from a
"Mail server down". Depending on the implementation, all text-to-speech
notifications might be treated as non-duplicates, and played independently.
Our big questions are:
- Does anyone rely on the current interrupting behavior for sound notifications?
- Would this be a good feature? Does eliminating a stream of (interrupted)
Yahoo's make your life better?
- Do you have other thoughts about this?
Many thanks!
Rich Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartware, LLC http://www.dartware.com 10 Buck Road, PO Box 130 Telephone: 603-643-2268 Hanover, NH 03755-0130 USA Fax: 603-643-2289
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