On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:12 pm, Mike Hauber wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2004 11:34 pm, Malcolm Kay > > proclaimed: > > I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au > > sound files. > > > > The sound system seems to work. I can play .au > > files successfully through kaboodle on kde but > > this is rather an overkill (and I don't normally run > > kde). > > > > Surely there is a simple utility to take a .au file > > and spit it out as sound. I've looked through the ports > > (and installed a number) but not yet found what I'm > > looking for - or I've failed to use them correctly. > > > > Malcolm > > try the cat command... > > IE$ cat sound_file.au > /dev/audio > Thanks Mike, but I already tried that. Something comes out but it is all over very quickly and nothing like I expect, or what kaboodle puts out.
% waveplay -B 8 -C 1 -S 8000 soundfile.au sort of works but the quality is poor and it tries to present the header as sound. Malcolm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
