Playing .au sound files

[Mike Hauber]

On Sunday 12 September 2004 12:14 am, Malcolm Kay 
proclaimed:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:12 pm, Mike Hauber wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 September 2004 11:34 pm, Malcolm Kay
> >
> > proclaimed:
> > > I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au
> > > sound files.
> > >
> > > Malcolm
> >
> > try the cat command...
> >
> > IE$ cat sound_file.au > /dev/audio
>
> Thanks Mike,
> but I already tried that. Something comes out but it is
> all over very quickly and nothing like I expect, or what
> kaboodle puts out.
>
> % waveplay -B 8 -C 1 -S 8000 soundfile.au
> sort of works but the quality is poor and it tries to
> present the header as sound.
>
> Malcolm
>

Now I'm curious...  What kind of sound card do you have 
(dmesg)?  Which driver is the kernal using (pcm, sbc, gusc, 
or snd)?  I ask because I've never experienced this.  When 
you use the play command, is there a difference?

Mike