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On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:00:05 PM UTC-5, gelonida wrote:
> I just want to use a beep command that works cross platform. [...] I
> just want to use them as alert, when certain events occur within a
> very long running non GUI application.

I can see a need for this when facing a non GUI interface. But even "IF" yo=
u do manage to play a sound in a cross platform manner; if the speaker volu=
me is too low, or the speakers are turned off, or the computer does not hav=
e speakers connected, etc... your user will never hear the alert! In this c=
ase, beeping the built-in speaker has the fail-safe advantage.=20

Why not wrap up the functionality and release a module yourself? If you are=
 not sure how to access the speaker on one or more OSs then ask on the list=
. I would love to see some community effort behind this.

PS: Better make sure this module does not exist though ;-)