From: ins407x@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff) Subject: Re: Is there a .au player for soundcards? Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 08:14:29 GMT
damien@b63519 (Damien Neil) writes:
>This reminds me -- is there an .au player that _will_ use a soundcard? I have
>splay from the snd-util package, but the sound it produces when playing an .au
>file makes it seem like I'm getting a poor radio transmission...from Venus. Not
>the program's fault of course -- it wasn't designed to use the .au format. But
>it would be nice to have access to all the Sun audio files out there.
Yep, there is...
It's called /dev/audio (have you mknod'ed one ?)
cat your sun audio files there and they'll work just fine.
It'd be trivial to modify the splay code to use /dev/audio if you told it
you had a .au file I suppose. (One day when I've got nothing else to do...)
/dev/dsp (what splay uses) is fine for .voc and .wav files (you just have
to ignore the header at the start of wav files which comes out as a short
burst of static).
/dev/audio is for Sun audio files.
Enjoy !
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