From BASH, "Play <filename.wav" gives obsolete oss interface message

ericcarlson · 08-11-2004, 05:47 AM

I have cron jobs which use PLAY depending on certain conditions. Seems its obsolete, even though I have the latest eveything. Whats the way a funky young whippersnapper would do it, rather than a crumbling old fuddy duddy like me whos obviously way behind the times please?

Guru Evi · 08-11-2004, 06:51 AM

I used playwave instead of play (make symlink if necessary) and my problems were gone (through OSS I had funny distorted sound, ALSA gave good sound).

ericcarlson · 08-11-2004, 07:54 AM

Huh? Made the changes, no real difference...

ericcarlson · 09-14-2004, 06:20 AM

Currious...I stayed using PLAY and just noticed after several weeks of doing it no error messages. There have, however, been several Fedora up2date runs. Guess someone fixed it their end :-)