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Subject: Re: Playing .au sound files
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:37 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au
>>> sound files.
>>
>> It's just
>>
>> # play file.au
>>
>
> Uli,
> I tried that too. But it is all over in a flash.
> (Just a plop).
> Can I be missing some sort of timing mechanism or
> perhaps some sort of setup on the sound devices.
Can you try some different sound file?
play can play .mp3 or .wav , too.

Uli.

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