[PLUG] Info on format for /dev/dsp or /dev/audio

Mike Witt mike at computer-arts.net
Mon Sep 23 23:42:48 UTC 2002


Galen Seitz wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Galen, sounds like good advice. "play" on my system is just
> > a script that calls sox, but I'll look at that or one of the variants
> > and see how they do it.
> >
> 
> Sorry, wrong name.  wavplay is what you want.  It's somewhat obscure.
> rpmfind.net shows a few entries for it.  When I was hacking sound
> code I was using Release 0.21, November, 1993.  I'm sure it has
> changed a bit since then.
> 
> Also, you should check out
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-Playing-HOWTO.html
> 
> galen

Okay, thanks. Yes, I am reading both the howtos also. Probably a
working code example will be more useful for what I'm trying to do.
I found the wavplay source, and it does look simpler than sox.

-Mike



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