Tim: >> On the chance that you don't have mp3 support, try an ogg or wav >> file. stan: > It has to be one of the following formats, from man aplay. > > -t, --file-type TYPE > File type (voc, wav, raw or au). If this parameter is > omitted the WAVE format is used. > > These days, that pretty much means wav. Considering that it tried playing their mp3 (badly) instead of aborting on an unknown file type. I wonder if aplay presumes raw if doesn't find header info for the few formats that it does understand? I just tried "aplay"-ing the output of dmesg, it looks like it does: [tim@fluffy ~]$ aplay dmesg.text Playing raw data 'dmesg.text' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono It sounded like my old 33k modem trying to connect up. ;-) I'm going to keep that file around, now, if I ever want to prank someone. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 5.19.15-201.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct 13 18:58:38 UTC 2022 x86_64 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
