From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 21:11:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134D616A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-unix@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E354643D97 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:11:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-unix@comcast.net) Received: from kt.weeble.com (pcp858615pcs.ptchar01.fl.comcast.net[68.56.224.228]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <20051123211108014003bfsie>; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:11:09 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:10:58 -0500 From: Randy Pratt To: Blue Raccoon Message-Id: <20051123161058.50460b4e.bsd-unix@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20051123215947.0475a9e5.blue.raccoon@wanadoo.nl> References: <20051123215947.0475a9e5.blue.raccoon@wanadoo.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.7; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: command line sound player? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:11:29 -0000 On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:59:47 +0100 Blue Raccoon wrote: > Hi, > > I have searched high and low for a simple command-line sound player that I can call from other apps. I need something that just plays the sound, without any feedback. Like 'cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp' but without the almost zero signal-to-noise ratio. > > Any ideas? You might try ports/audio/sox which is a set of audio utilities. One of them is "play" which handles .wav format. See the pkg-descr for more information. HTH, Randy