Playing audio with QSound in Qt for Symbian

Comments

Should merge in How to use QSound in Qt

hamishwillee 22:40, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

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Tested with

Devices(s): Symbian

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 3rd Edition, FP1
S60 3rd Edition, FP2
S60 5th Edition

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Article

Keywords: QSound, DEPLOYMENT

Created: User:Kbwiki (26 Apr 2013)

Last edited: hamishwillee (11 Oct 2012)

Description

This article shows how to deploy a sound file on Symbian and play it using QSound.

Solution

QSound does not support playback from audio files stored in the application's executable using Qt's resource system (on any platform). An easy alternative on Symbian is to use the DEPLOYMENT variable in a .pro file to deploy the audio files in a sis file along with the application binaries.

In the .pro file, add the audio files into the installation package using DEPLOYMENT:

 soundFiles.sources = sounds\*.wav
 DEPLOYMENT += soundFiles

This code will include all WAV files from the \sounds folder in the sis package. The files will be installed under the application's private folder, and using them is simple:

 #include <QSound>
 
 ...
 QSound::play("beep.wav");