Bug 21494

Summary: showaudio should use play as opposed to cat > /dev/audio
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Component: metamailAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Jeremy Katz 2000-11-29 18:17:27 UTC 
showaudio's fallback is to cat the raw audio file to /dev/audio, but it
would probably be better if it tried to use the play command from the sox
package first as a lot of sound cards these days are very limited in what
formats they support in hardware.
Comment 1 Preston Brown 2001-02-01 18:23:07 UTC 
seems reasonable.  Changed in 2.7-26 and later.