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Originally Posted by genss
aplay can not play mp3, it treats it as raw
use mpg321, mpg123 or best of all sox (the 'play' command)
for the voip thingy it needs a channel count, even thou it did say "Mono"
try adding -c 1 for mono, -c 2 for stereo
you can also try sox, maybe it's just a non standard wav file
U8 is unsigned 8bit format (S8 is signed)
does not mean that your card supports it, that it has to thanks to your asoundrc
just deleting bout asoundrc will make alsa resample it to 16bit/48kHz and it should play
alternatively sox can resample it
either offline or while playing (the "remix"... directive i guess, it's in the sox man page)
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Thank you! The 'play' command (which I've never used before) can play both the mp3 file and the 8 bit mono wav file that aplay could not play. Now, at least, I can listen to my voice mails without having to use a different computer.
With /etc/asound.conf in place (I'm not using any .asoundrc file) aplay still can't play the 16-bit mono wav file even with -c 1 or -c 2.
Code:
$ aplay -c 1 msg_12a4d280-0eb6-11e4-be9f-fb48c42e9d38.wav
Playing WAVE 'msg_12a4d280-0eb6-11e4-be9f-fb48c42e9d38.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
aplay: set_params:1239: Channels count non available
$ aplay -c 2 msg_12a4d280-0eb6-11e4-be9f-fb48c42e9d38.wav
Playing WAVE 'msg_12a4d280-0eb6-11e4-be9f-fb48c42e9d38.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
aplay: set_params:1239: Channels count non available
I removed the /etc/asound.conf file, and now aplay will play the voice mail message with -c 1, -c 2, or -c omitted.
Why did this work? This is exactly the situation I had originally. The /etc/asound.conf file didn't exist originally. I created it to try to get the sound working. Now simply removing it seems to have fixed the problem. Mostly anyway. xmms is still not working. I'll try reinstalling that later.
