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> Does anyone know of a simple wav sound file player, preferably a command
> line one?  I need to use this program to play some wav files when certain
> events occur.

> TIA.

>> Hi,

>> Does anyone know of a simple wav sound file player, preferably a command
>> line one?  I need to use this program to play some wav files when certain
>> events occur.

>> TIA.

> sox will play wav files and is a very powerful command line player. it
> can play many files apart from wav as well.

> N.B. im assuming that these are RAW wav files and that they don't have
> compression applied on them. i think sox can manage ADPCM encoded wavs
> but not other types. wavs that have been compressed with mpeg
> compression can be read with mp123 ( i have some like this that were
> created with cool edit in windows. in windows they play fine but linux
> programs realise that they are weird).

> Alex

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> Thanks for the infor.  However, how do you use sox to play a raw wav
> file?  For instance, I created a simple/raw wav file, called test.wav.
> When I tried to play the "test.wav" file using sox, I got the
> following error messages:

>         ~ sox test.wav
>         sox: Usage: [ gopts ] [ fopts ] ifile [ fopts ] ofile [ effect
> [ effopts ] ]
>         Failed at: No output file?

>> Thanks for the infor.  However, how do you use sox to play a raw wav
>> file?  For instance, I created a simple/raw wav file, called test.wav.
>> When I tried to play the "test.wav" file using sox, I got the
>> following error messages:

>>         ~ sox test.wav
>>         sox: Usage: [ gopts ] [ fopts ] ifile [ fopts ] ofile [ effect
>> [ effopts ] ]
>>         Failed at: No output file?

> Try `play foo.wav', or have a look at the man page.

> HTH,

> Stephen