To play a WAV file from the commandline, I use the 'play' binary from the sox (aka Sound eXchage) package maintained by Chris Bagwell ( To set sound volumes from the commandline (non-interactive), I use the 'smixer' package written by David Johnson ( - -- Lew Pitcher Master…
Read the full replyI'm looking for a simple SMALL WAV player that'll just work from command line. It's to run under a 2.4 kernel on an ES1868 audio processor. It's just to output the occassional warning/status message. Fidelity & reproduction quality isn't an issue.
Need something that doesn't need TDK, Gnome, KDE etc.
Also, I guess I'll need a utility to set the sound volume.
Anyone got any recommendations ?
Thanks for that. I've downloaded it all, and built it, just got to get it working, but that's my problem I guess.
Thanks again.
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