On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 > > bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > bark.sh calls Biff ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > Playing Sparc Audio '/mnt/home/rprice/bark/h5.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, > > Mono > > > > I hear the bark.
> What is it using to play the .au file? OSS, ALSA, or something > else? rprice@maria ~ aplay -v ~/bark/h5.au ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin > I would guess that VLC is triggering the start of PulseAudio, > and after that PA has disabled OSS. > > After VLC runs, does aplay work to play sounds? Yes and no. Yes - I can manually run aplay and hear the sound. No - a cron job cannot use aplay and gets the error message: From: Cron Daemon <r...@maria.rogerprice.org> Subject: Cron <rprice@maria> /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh S30 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:999:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:831: audio open error: Device or resource busy Roger
