Desperate: Linux Sound Module

[Will Ware]

Gerrit Holl (gerrit.holl at pobox.com) wrote:
: I'm really desperate: I can't find any module for playing sounds on a
: Linux system! I already searched everywhere: google, python.org, parnassus.
: I just want to play .au or .wav, but even edna can't *play* *play* *PLAY*
: an mp3!

I did this once, let me try to remember how. It wasn't intrinsically
Pythonic, it involved some other thing (sox?) which could be easily
invoked with an os.system() call, and you could pass it command line
arguments such as sampling rate. Here we go, a URL:

	http://surfin.spies.com/Sox/

Nifty-looking things of related interest here:

	http://www.links2go.com/more/www.spies.com/Sox

I get by with a pretty primitive Soundblaster card. Sampled music
sounds just awful, but it plays MIDI ok (different executable:
playmidi, xplaymidi). My interest in this stuff isn't strong enough
to merit pursuing better results.
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