Well, I have to confess that I don't understand the intent of the author of /usr/bin/play. I don't know whose error it is. But I had to change it to be able to play files using play foo.au ----------------------- --- play Sun Oct 11 07:59:00 1998 +++ /usr/bin/play Mon Dec 28 20:30:18 1998 @@ -64,6 +64,6 @@ fi # Best to always use highest quality output for sound. - sox $fopts -t ossdsp -w -s /dev/dsp $@ + sox -w -s $fopts $@ -t ossdsp /dev/dsp fi fi ------------------------ I'm not sure whether this is OK (for example it seems that the effects should be preceded by -e), but at least the simple case works. Mirek
I was not able to replicate any difficulty with the play command on a test machine.