From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 10 20:22:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA04520 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.141]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA04511 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00305; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:22:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Nessus cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple no Client/Server Wav/AU player for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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