From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 05:50:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA26758 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 05:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com ([151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA26708 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 05:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA03622 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:22:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (bmc@current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA04139 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:27:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA09275; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709151227.IAA09275@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <131949973@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk mark shamrock wrote: > hello everyone.i have ONE more question for you.i finally got my sound > card to work.but i was wondering,,which device do you use to play .wav > sound files.i know you use /dev/audio for .au files. > > anyone know if there is a piece of software availabe that will take care > of playing different kinds of sounds for you? You want to install the sox package. It'll convert from .wav to .au, allowing you to play a .wav through `/dev/audio', using this command line: sox file.wav -t au - >/dev/audio where file.wav is the WAV file to be played. Sox is typically available as a port or a package. Check your CD-ROM or pull it down from ftp.freebsd.org. > also is it possible to record sounds with freebsd then play them back? I've done this, again using `sox' to convert and manipulate what came off the microphone. I no longer have the script I used to use, though, and anyway I'm sure there's a more efficient way to do it than the method I was using. ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ They just buzzed and buzzed.....buzzed.