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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:51:18 +0930
From:      Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Playing .au sound files
Message-ID:  <200409121751.18512.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040912063932.M2431@pukruppa.net>
References:  <200409121304.54335.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <200409121351.18996.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <20040912063932.M2431@pukruppa.net>

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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:15 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:37 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> >>> I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au
> >>> sound files.
> >>
> >> It's just
> >>
> >> # play file.au
> >
> > Uli,
> > I tried that too. But it is all over in a flash.
> > (Just a plop).
> > Can I be missing some sort of timing mechanism or
> > perhaps some sort of setup on the sound devices.
>
> Can you try some different sound file?
> play can play .mp3 or .wav , too.
>
No!
I get responses such as:
 % play \[08]\ Donovan\ -\ Mellow\ Yellow.mp3
 play: [08] Donovan - Mellow Yellow.mp3: Unknown format.

Malcolm



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