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RE: sox - package is broken


David Stacey sent the following at Monday, February 24, 2014 3:27 PM
>On 24/02/2014 17:27, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote:
>> But after (export AUDIODRIVER=ao ; play ding.wav)
>> I see messages indicating successfull playing and application is waiting
>> the time the wav-file takes,
>> but no sound. But I can hear the sound using VLC-win32 or WindowsMediaPlayer.

The following works for me.

/bin/cp path/file.wav /dev/dsp
    or
cat path/file.wav > /dev/dsp

See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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