Re: [Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 11 November 2016 16:10:45 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > For some reason the listserver stripped out the middle part of my > > message (when I view what I sent, it only shows up if I view html, but > > there wasn't nay html in the message) ;-( Most of the missing text > > consists of

Re: [Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > For some reason the listserver stripped out the middle part of my > message (when I view what I sent, it only shows up if I view html, but > there wasn't nay html in the message) ;-( Most of the missing text > consists of the man page fragment for -f, so that is available to all.

Re: [Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:35:27 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > Now I am trying to work out how to direct the output of mpg123 to the same > audio devices. The format of the command seems to be different to aplay and > it keeps defaulting to the PC sound card. > > Any thoughts on that anyone?

Re: [Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 11 November 2016 12:37:53 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I installed sox, but found the man page a bit dense > > It just needs reading many more times. :-) Maybe next time :-) > sox has a soxexam man page too with examples so you can then work > backwards and look at the options in

Re: [Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > I installed sox, but found the man page a bit dense It just needs reading many more times. :-) sox has a soxexam man page too with examples so you can then work backwards and look at the options in the reference sox(1). BTW, that soxexam mentions sticking with PCM if you're doing

Re: [Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > $ aplay -D hw:3,0 01_Wedding_March.wav > Playing WAVE '01_Wedding_March.wav' : Signed 32 bit Little Endian, > Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo > aplay: set_params:1297: Sample format not available > Available formats: > - S16_LE Without looking into it, I'd say you've a S32_LE WAV file and

Re: [Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Terry Coles
For some reason the listserver stripped out the middle part of my message (when I view what I sent, it only shows up if I view html, but there wasn't nay html in the message) ;-( Most of the missing text consists of the man page fragment for -f, so that is available to all. Apart from that,

[Dorset] Syntax for aplay

2016-11-11 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, I've just received a set of these: https://thepihut.com/products/usb-audio-adapter[1] As far as I can tell, these are identical to the ones sold by Modmypi and others, so I've been trying to get them to play using the tutorial I found on the Modmypi site. Initially, I'm doing this on my