Finishing Beep

A sound producing program to signify the end of a program.

Description

This is intended for use on programs that take a long time to run. Used at the end, the user need not stare at the screen and can have an audio alarm to signify the progress or end of the program so the user can do something else besides staring at the screen.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.0 (R12)

[Maurice Hendrix]

 

[John D'Errico]

Indecipherable documentation. Plus it fails to produce more than a simple beep for me, irregardless of the arguments I provided. If you fail to provide arguments that it implies are optional, it returns an error. The following does work very nicely however:

load Handel
sound(y,Fs)

For all the flaws I'm even tempted to rate the code lower than I did, given that its so easy to just load and play a sound. I gave it a 2 rating only because its something that I have done in some of my codes to flag their termination.
This code needs MAJOR improvement though.

[Hai Jiang]

Although I disagree with John D'Errico that this code is badly documented, I have to say that it's overly complicated. To play a sound at the end of your program, simply use the following Matlab statements:

load chirp
sound(y,Fs)