>To be honest to you: Pulseaudio is working just fine here. It plays the wav file without issues. It uses the best output that your system is offering to pulseaudio: null-sink. Pulseaudio said openly that your system is not permitting access to the real audio hardware. Okay thank you for your honesty.? What part of the output from 'pulseaudio -vvv' said that my system was not permitting access to the real audio hardware?? I looked at the log.? What makes you think that my system is not allowing access to audio hardware? I could re-install the OS, and I plan to do that.? But this is already a fairly fresh install (2 months old) and I don't think that will fix the problem.? Also, the distribution is CentOS, which is RedHat.? RedHat is the most respected names in Linux distributions. It surprises me that you suggest I pay a Linux Expert in order to get pulseaudio to play music.? Windows, MacOS, Android, and every other machine on the market does this automatically. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131202/0993f885/attachment.html>