Winsound Problems on Vista 64

[Terry Reedy]

Casey wrote:
> I have a new laptop that came with Vista 64 and I'm having problems
> with some of my older code that I use for multimedia processing.  I
> narrowed the problem down to the winsound library; any attempt to play
> sounds results in a fatal error.  The simplest case is:
> 
>>>> from winsound import Beep
>>>> Beep(440, 2)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
> RuntimeError: Failed to beep
> 
> I have been able to recreate this problem in Python 2.6.1 (32-bit),
> 3.0.1 (32-bit) and 3.0.1 (AMD64 bit, which I hope is compliant with my
> IA64 CPU). 

IA64 is Itanium, not Pentium, and AMD64 is not compatible with that.
But I doubt that is what your laptop has.