Re: Unix play command

[Andrew Brouse <brouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Here are two other utilities which may be useful in lieu of 'play':

1. PlayBufferedSoundFile from Kurt Revis:
http://www.snoize.com/

2. Tom Erbe's InstantPlayer:
http://soundhack.com/freeware.php

~
Andrew

p.s. I would highly recommend upgrading to 10.3 or 10.4 for any audio work

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, beaucham wrote:

> Practically every Unix system I've used since about 1990 sports a play
> command that simply plays back a file without the need for a special
> GUI app -- including Linux. Some of them even had record commands. I
> find this very convenient, especially when working with shell scripts
> and simple C programs. However, my OS X 10.1 Terminal app (which
> emulates a Unix terminal) doesn't do it. Does anyone know if more
> recent OS X systems do?
>
> Jim

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Andrew Brouse
Music Technology
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada