Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) It seems that /usr/bin/aplay is in the package alsa-utils. I > don't use it because I don't have an ALSA system. Is aplay better > that sox on an ALSA system?
I don't actually know, but I'm also not sure everyone uses ALSA, even today. I suppose one advantage to sox is that it supports a number of backends: OSS, ALSA, etc. > 2) Do you need libsox-fmt-alsa if you have aplay? I would imagine not, since if you use aplay, you won't need sox at all. > 3) I don't think both libsox-fmt-oss and libsox-fmt-alsa are needed > on one system. One of them will be enough. I imagine that libsox-fmt-oss will be needed if the system doesn't have alsa support in the kernel (i.e. It's possible that the kernel might only be configured for OSS). Also, I believe ALSA is Linux specific, so if saytime is intended to work on any other systems (*BSD, Hurd, OSX, AIX, Solaris, etc.), then sox may be preferable to aplay. > 4) If the right library is installed, does sox work without an > additional command line option? I don't know, but even if it did, I wonder if it might choose incorrectly. As I mentioned, on my system, even though OSS might appear to be available (via ALSA's OSS module), it doesn't work well. Though perhaps sox is smart enough not to pick the wrong thing when left to its own devices. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
