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From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
To: "Mr T. Crummey" <tom@sos.bangor.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: WHat do people use to play sound?
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On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Mr T. Crummey wrote:
> 
> This is probably a very stupid question...but how does one play sounds
> through a sounblaster card in FreeBSD. i.e. what programs do you need?
> 
> I have got rplay, but the man pages are missing... ANy hints would be
> gratefully recevied.

You can use cdplayer to play cd's, maplay to play mpeg audio streams, and 
'cat' .au files to /dev/audio.