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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Engineer, 08.ZIYA" <shyone@constantchange.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: WAV player
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On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Engineer, 08.ZIYA wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a good WAV player for freebsd? I tried porting the 
> wavplay from sunsite's linux archive, but i really suck at that sort of 
> thing and the best i could do was get it to give me a "Can't get 
> blocksize" error after i compile it (swapping stdlib.h for getopts.h and 
> /sys/i386/include/soundcard.h for linux/soundcard.h).

Use sox (it's in packages, I think) and have it output to au format, then 
redirect to /dev/audio.  

sox file.wav -t au /dev/audio

Or something like that.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major