On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 20:08 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
"mplayer /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg" works
fine.
It is the only one of these 5 programs that actually works on my
laptop:
play does not seem to exist;
It comes with the sox package. I might have it installed as a
dependency on something, rather than having it by default.
aplay makes a rather annoying noise, which I have seen described as
static;
Mightn't support ogg, and/or some other formats. Some programs will
refuse to play unsupported formats, others will just try to play them as
raw data - which isn't going to work properly.
paplay just hangs without doing anything;
Looks like it mightn't support ogg, either. I thought I recalled that
it did, but maybe I was playing another file format, at the time. When
I tried it, just now, I got an error message:
Failed to open file 'test.ogg'
If it were hanging, then I think you have a problem with pulseaudio, as
paplay is a utility for working with it.
ogg123 does not seem to exist on my Fedora-12/KDE system;
That comes from vorbis-tools, and I thought that got installed by
default. But perhaps that's not the case. Or, maybe you've installed
less than the defaults.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
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