On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 01:53:26PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote:
>
> I'm having a strange problem here. I'm using the "play" that comes with the
> sox in RHL 5.0 (sox-11g-6) to play various sound files. Occasionally, I'd
> have problems with play just emitting a loud, high-pitched screeching sound.
> I attributed this to a corrupt sound file until recently. I found out that it
> wasn't corrupt when I took a "corrupt" wav file from my Linux box and moved it
> over to my Solaris Sparc. It played fine there. I then went about trying to
> find other sound (in particular, wav) players and tested the "corrupt" file
> with that and it played fine.
>
> I liked sox and found it supported a bunch of file formats. I'd be willing to
> change if anyone can suggest a simple ($ play <soundfile>), yet powerful ($
> play <justaboutanysoundfile>) replacement. Maybe I've just got sox configured
> incorrectly? (Can you even configure sox?)
>
> Thanks,
> pete
I've had better luck using xanim to play wav files. It also handles
sun audio files (along with animations and video). Unfortunatley, it
requires X. xanim is on your RH 5.0 CD.
Greg Whittier
Greg Whittier
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