Thanks for replying; I've updated to the latest driver version of my sound card 
but no change.
I didn't think the problem would be in that area actually; I have a relatively 
recent card I have no audio problems in any other kind of applications. But it 
was worth a try; appreciate the response.
I was (and kinda still am) assuming the problem would be more on the Java/Ant 
side, specifically something with the buildFinished listener the sound task 
sets to hook into the end of a build. Unfortunately -debug doesn't provide any 
info about that as far as I can tell. 
I guess the only thing I could try is to find out exactly how the task plays 
the sounds, and reproduce that in a standalone Java app to (dis)prove the 
problem is purely inside Ant. If I get around to doing that I'll post back.
In the meantime, here's hoping someone else has ever stumbled upon the same 
symptoms and found the exact cause and/or a solution.

Best regards,
Ward

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> Subject: RE: sound task - either not doing anything or infinitely looping
> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:43:40 -0500
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> 
> First thing I would check is to make sure the SoundCard vendor's driver is 
> installed and working
> Nota Bene: All of the available (Sound) drivers are supposed to be located in 
> windows /INF folder
> 
> I know my vendor's SC is so outdated that it wont work with any of the newer 
> OS's
> 
> Martin 
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>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: sound task - either not doing anything or infinitely looping
>> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:59:39 +0100
>> 
>> 
>> I'm getting what I think is very strange behaviour from the sound task. As I 
>> understand it, this is supposed to play sounds at the end of a build, 
>> depending on whether the build failed or not.
>> My first attempt came down to simply this:
>> 
>>     
>>         
>>         
>>     
>> 
>> This results in absolutely nothing being played, regardless of build success 
>> or failure. I am positive that the files are in the correct location and 
>> that there is nothing out of the ordinary with them.
>> I then started playing around with the attributes, and found that if I set 
>> the duration to anything other than "0", for example:
>> 
>>     
>> 
>>         
>> 
>>         
>> 
>>     
>> 
>> 
>> This results in the sound being infinitely repeated, keeping the Ant process 
>> from ever terminating until I kill it.
>> 
>> The value of "duration" doesn't have any influence on the behaviour; except 
>> when it's set to 0 in which case again nothing at all happens (as expected). 
>> The value of "loops" does not have any impact at all.
>> I used several different wav files and they all yield the same result.
>> I tried the sound task in all possible locations (inside an "init" target on 
>> which everything else depends, inside its own target, at top level), and the 
>> result is always the same.
>> Running with -verbose and -debug didn't yield anything relevant.
>> For completeness' sake, I'm running on Windows XP SP2, with jdk1.6.0_10 and 
>> ant-1.7.1.
>> 
>> Summing up, without optional attributes nothing happens; with any strictly 
>> positive duration it loops forever. As far as I could google and search this 
>> and other mailing lists, no-one else has ever reported this problem. I'm at 
>> a complete loss, I think for the first time ever... on what seemed like a 
>> simple and fun icing on the cake of finishing up a script, and d'oh! :-)
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any tips,
>> Best regards,
>> Ward
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