On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > You cannot use cat to send audio files to devices. Instead use "play > filename.au". You could use aplay too, but I still can't get aplay or > arecord to work. Hmmm, I do believe that it is suggested in the sound howto that you can use cat to throw a .wav file at /dev/audio to test the sound card, and it has worked for me, after all, you're just feeding it a stream of data. Now an mp3 on the other hand...Just don't do it. *grin* Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808
