> From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 15:09:22 -0500 > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 02:23:45PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Paul Rogers wrote: > >>> > >>> But it turns up another question. I have an old .au file of Linus > >>> saying, "This is {Leenus}..." and something else uniuntelligible, in > >>> Finnish? I've used that as a sound check. aplay has no problem on this > >>> Conroe/G43 chipset box. But a "format non[sic] available" error on the > >>> i7/X58 chipset. Trying to find out why, I ran into "plugins" in > >>> asoundrc, which were very mysterious, but also a suggestion that these > >>> old 8000hz mu-law sources might not be usable on some devices. So I > >>> don't know how much of this is done in software and what's in hardware. > >>> What is it I should know, or where can I find an understandable > >>> explanation? > >> > >> I think you need libsndfile for the au format. > >> > > Hmm, alsa used to be able to play that file (it's in Swedish) but > > none of my recent machines have been able to play 8KHz sound files - > > I think it's a hardware limitation. > > > > When I'm on a machine with working sound (not my main development > > machine, I'll need to bisect at some point to find where that lost > > sound) I'll try to remember to rebuild alsa after libsndfile. > > Can I get a link to that file?
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