Pipewire is now on this machine since this didn't work with pulseaudio either.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Here's one script that works that way. Standard package install choices > > were done desktop environment, mate, and standard utilities. > > An install with only standard utilities and no desktop environment and no > > mate prevents this script from playing at all. > > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > > # file: wdvr.sh - shell script tune into wdvr > > station="https://wdvrfm.org/live"; > > mpv --really-quiet $station > > My initial guess is that mpv is trying to play through > PulseAudio, or via ALSA in a way which requires mpv to have sole > control of ALSA (and that control is not available). > > --audio-device=help (and then setting an appropriate driver) > might help. > > -dsr- >
