> > 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.
>
> -- Bruce
I didn't install it on my (B)LFS-7.7 system and it plays the file fine.
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