Hi,

I wrote my private alarm_clock using repeated .wav files to announce
that (1) the clock started and (2) the specified time had elapsed.

For (1), which is too protracted:
3.times do |i|
	system "wv_player.exe", DING
	sleep 0.2i
end

For (2), which works fine for my purposes:
while true
	system "wv_player.exe", ALARM_BELL
	sleep 1
end

The two constants are defined:
ALARM_BELL 	= ENV["WINDIR"] + "\\Media\\chimes.wav"
DING 			= ENV["WINDIR"] + "\\Media\\ding.wav"

Is there away to play a few DINGs faster?  If not,  I'll post on a
Windows site to get a suggestion for something better to feed to
Windows Wave Player or maybe Windows Media Player.

I'm running WinXP-Pro/SP2, Ruby 1.8.2-15, Rails  1.1.6.

TIA,
Richard