On Mon, 2006-21-08 at 18:29 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: > On 8/20/06, Brian Harring wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:14:24AM +0200, Michael Weyersh??user wrote: > > > Abhay Kedia wrote: > > > > Can someone suggest an appropriate alternate please? > > > > > > I don't know if it's appropriate since I never used alsaplayer, but > > > mpeg123 is a good player for "Just play me this file on a console > > > without much hassle". Other candidates would include mplayer and mpd. > > > > he meant mpg123 (as-is), and/or mpg321 (gpl2), not mpeg123... > > > I use alsaplayer to play KDE sounds as it works well with dmix and I > can keep aRts disabled. All KDE sounds are ogg files and when I play > them with mpg321, it just exits without producing any sound. I guess > the only thing left for me to use is mplayer? You can use ogg123 -- Olivier Crête tester@gentoo.org