.wavs play but not .mp3s

[Chris]

David Benfell wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm not having any trouble playing .wav files; lame -h
> seems to happily convert them, and mpg123 and madplay
> don't complain when I ask them to play .mp3s, but I'm
> also not hearing any sound.
> 
> xmms does nothing.  I'm not getting any visible errors
> in any of this.
> 
> I tried using the sample command from the FreeBSD manual,
> which specifies a device; I don't have dsp1.0 so I tried
> dsp0.0 .
> 
> I have:
> 
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 45 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 48 Mar  6 22:28 /dev/dsp0.1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 51 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.2
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 54 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.3
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 57 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.4
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 61 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dsp0.5
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 46 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 49 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.1
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 52 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.2
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 55 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.3
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 58 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.4
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 62 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspW0.5
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 60 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspr0.4
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 64 Mar  2 13:49 /dev/dspr0.5
> 
> So, why is this such a problem?
> 

This looks like it might be a Sony device (or perhaps an HDA Intel sound
device). If this is the case, try the OSS sound drivers.

I had to use them from 6.0 till current. Not sure if 6.2 supports the
above natively (only because I went with what I knew worked).

Here's the link: http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi

It's really easy to install.


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Best regards,
Chris

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