Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:22:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Nessus <jandrese@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple no Client/Server Wav/AU player for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960910201953.227G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960910155735.356A-100000@jandrese.async.vt.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Nessus wrote: > Is there a simple WAV/AU player for FreeBSD that doesn't use a > Client/Server archetecture. All I want is something that checks the > audio device, and if it is free, then it plays a sound and then quits. > Rplay and NAS both hog the audio device, preventing me from playing > Mods/S3Ms. For .au's how about....cat! cat file.au > /dev/audio Comes with the system, requires no extra memory, and has no arcane command line syntax. (I guess 'cp' would work to...cp file.au /dev/audio ?) A handy utility is 'sox', which does various format conversions. I use it to play wav's by converting them to .au's and dumping them to /dev/audio. sox is in the ports tree. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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