Csanyi Pal wrote: > I don't have the 'play' command, I have instead the 'aplay' command. > What package must I install to get the 'play' command?
Florian's message has very good information. Be sure to read it first. Either command produces the same result. If you are not seeing it with aplay then you probably won't see it with play either. I just arbitrarily chose play as a simple command as opposed to mplayer or any of the other much more swiss army chainsaw like commands. The sox utilities are useful utilities for doing batch mode processing of audio files. Very useful to know about. The play command is part of the sox package. $ apt-cache show sox Description-en: Swiss army knife of sound processing SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files during the conversion. As an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on several unix-style platforms. . SoX is able to handle formats like Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, AIFF, VOC, SND, AU, GSM and several more. Any format support requires at least libsox-fmt-base. Some formats have their own package e.g. mp3 read and write support is provided by libsox-fmt-mp3. . SoX supports most common sound architectures i.e. Alsa, Libao, OSS and Pulse (respectively provided by libsox-fmt-alsa, libsox-fmt-ao, libsox-fmt-oss and libsox-fmt-pulse). It also supports LADSPA plugins. Homepage: http://sox.sourceforge.net A useful command to find this information is apt-file which operates similar to apt-cache. $ apt-file -F search /usr/bin/play sox: /usr/bin/play This is also offered from the Debian web site here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Scroll down to "Search the contents of packages" and then enter the filesystem path into the box and then click search. This will give you the same information but from the web site and not needing to install the apt-file package. Bob
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