Dang, Win32 is *ugly*. I dug up the MSDN Library CD here at work and started reading the section explaining sound output. Boy, I don't like it. The waveOutWrite() call is always non-blocking *and* I can't free the buffer until the write is done. That means I can't return from the ao_play () call in my library unless the block is done playing or I've copied it to a new buffer.

In either case, I'm going to have to figure out some goofy way to sleep until the block is done playing. A poll loop is icky because I would have to hot spin and blow CPU time. I can do a callback, but I don't have a clue right now how I should go about sleeping until the callback wakes me up. I want to use something like signals I think. I sure as heck am not going to dive into Win32 threads and lose my mind. Bleah.

Wow, Slashdot sure is whacked out these days. I went back to try and read the comments, and I can't deal with it anymore. The demographic has changed so that I'm not that interested in the discussions that go on. Too bad. I kind of liked that place.

Good thing I found Advogato, or I might have actually become productive. :)