command line sound player?

[Wojciech Puchar]

> I have searched high and low for a simple command-line sound player that I can call from other apps. I need something that just plays the sound, without any feedback. Like 'cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp' but without the almost zero signal-to-noise ratio.
>
> Any ideas?

if it's C program much better (and much faster) way is to simply open 
file in /dev do ioctl to configure and write to it