From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 12:14:35 2003 Return-Path: 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 8E16716A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.hitmedia.com (mail.hitmedia.com [205.162.11.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED12F43FBF for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdlap@hitmedia.com) Received: (qmail 92834 invoked by uid 0); 19 Oct 2003 19:14:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:14:35 -0700 From: BSD baby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031019191435.GA92677@mail.hitmedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: most direct way to get audio file to sound card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:14:35 -0000 What's the most direct way to cat an audio file into the sound card? The FreeBSD manual talks about wavplay or mpg123 or xmms, but what if I just want to send an audio file to the sound card without an application inbetween? (Reason why - I want to make a quick shell script to play my flac audio files. I can use sox to convert to wav or raw on the fly, but still can't get it to the sound card.)