Marshall Lake wrote:

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I need to play a sound from the command line. Which program and which format should I use ?

Try play <filename>

I believe it can determine the file format on it's own. If not, use the -t option.

man play

Or try: splay <filename> Works well for WAV and MP3 files. - James W.

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Try play <filename>

The problem was also interesting for me, but there is no commands play and splay in my system? No manual entries too...

Should I install something?

I believe the play command is part of the sox install.

Does it plays in runlevel 3 ?

Yes. -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net

I was able to play mp3s in graphical mode after installing plugin xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm, maybe I should install some other for console mode too?

Try mpg321, that works okay for me.

* Sergey Mkrtchyan [05-06-06 08:33]:

-bash: mpg321: Command not found

seems strange...so it isn't a part of sox, is it?

not on my sys, mpg321-0.2.10-419.rpm -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

* Sergey Mkrtchyan [05-06-06 09:08]:

Ah, that is what I felt (;)) should have been installed on my sys. If it wont take you too much time(and if it is not over 1MB), can you please send it to my email.

It is available from SUSE. Open Yast2, Software Management, and search for mpg321. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 16:55, schreef Sergey Mkrtchyan:

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It is available from SUSE.  Open Yast2, Software Management, and search for mpg321.

YaST gives its "No Results" for mpg321, and there is no such a package in the DVD. Sure I have done it before writing :)

get it from packman: 10.1-i386/base > zgrep mpg321 cont* mpg321;0.2.10-530;i586;packman -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

Jürgen Mell wrote:

Try http://packman.links2linux.de

You will find there all the multimedia packets which are missing from the standard SUSE distro, including mpg321. Download the packets you need for your version of SUSE and install them with rpm -ihv <name of the packet>.

Bye, Jürgen

Sorry for being so problematic, but I'm again in strange troubles. I downloaded the mpg321 from the site you told me, now when I am trying to install it it gives linux:~/Install/mpgplug10.0 # rpm -i mpg321-0.2.10-530.x86_64.rpm warning: mpg321-0.2.10-530.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5f6842a4 error: Failed dependencies: libao.so.2()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libdl.so.2()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libid3tag.so.0()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libmad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libz.so.1()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 When I search for the libraries using "pin" for one of the libraries it gives pin 0.34 - package info for libid3tag-0.15.1b-22.i586.rpm ------------------------------------------------------------------ *** no rpm named libid3tag-0.15.1b-22.i586.rpm installed ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ *** zgrep libid3tag-0.15.1b-22.i586.rpm /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---> ./DVD1/suse/i586/libid3tag-0.15.1b-22.i586.rpm so concluding from the second line there is no such a library installed on my system, but when I try to install it it says that it is already installed, linux:~/Install/mpgplug10.0 # rpm -i libid3tag-0.15.1b-22.i586.rpm package libid3tag-0.15.1b-22 is already installed So where do I go from here now? And can anybody told me what this warning means, warning: mpg321-0.2.10-530.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5f6842a4 I downloaded from that site also a file asc(64).txt which contains the following -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEMO4B45gpPV9oQqQRAvHFAKCSYs8lZsZNCGUf426vO9juLfKfKQCeLZlI +LRlWuXmuGLju+kc8tYk0k0= =QuT4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Is this the source of the warning, should I somehow "connect" this file to the rpm package? Thank you all very much, -- Sergey Mkrtchyan Scientific Researcher Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University Tel: (374-10) 55-43-41 Fax: (374-10) 57-76-89

On Thursday 11 May 2006 06:42, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:

error: Failed dependencies: libao.so.2()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libdl.so.2()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libid3tag.so.0()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libmad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530 libz.so.1()(64bit) is needed by mpg321-0.2.10-530

Hi Sergey (and sorry to everybody for the long post!) For future reference, you can find the packages that provide missing dependencies as follows, using the --whatprovides parameter: carl@linux:~> rpm -q --whatprovides libz.so.1 zlib-1.2.3-3 Carlos is almost certainly correct that you have tried to install the incorrect version (64 bit). You can avoid these conflicts by setting up a complete list of installation sources in YaST's "Installation Source" module. Here are the ones I use, but you should try to use a nearer/local/faster server if one is available to you: Note: When you add these sources, be sure each has "refresh" set "on". "Packman" ======= protocol: http server: packman.rsync.zmi.at directory: suse/10.0 "Guru" ==== protocol: http server: ftp4.gwdg.de directory: pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.0/ 10.0 === protocol: ftp server: ftp4.gwdg.de directory: pub/suse/i386/10.0/inst-source-extra protocol: ftp server: ftp4.gwdg.de directory: pub/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra protocol: ftp server: ftp4.gwdg.de directory: pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source Java for 10.0 ======== protocol: ftp server: ftp4.gwdg.de directory: pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source-java ** Optional ** Supplementary Desktops for 10.0 ("unofficial" and "unsupported" newer versions; the KDE is great! GNOME may or may not be broken... I was selective... you might want to avoid. YMMV.) KDE 3.5.2 ====== protocol: ftp server: ftp4.gwdg.de directory: pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source GNOME 2.12.2 ========= protocol: ftp server: ftp4.gwdg.de directory: pub/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_10.0/yast-source The secret to using all of these repositories effectively lies in YaST's "Software Management" module. Launch the module, select "Package Groups" from the 'Filter' drop-down list at top-left. In the left pane, scroll all the way to the bottom and select 'zzz All'. When the list of packages has fully populated in the right pane, you can then scroll through all the packages that are available to YaST for install/update/remove... this includes Suser-Guru and Packman packages. Of particular importance are the "Inst. Ver." and "Avail. Ver." columns which stand for, respectively, "Installed Version" (blank means not installed) and "Available Version" (is available for installation.) YaST (actually rpm in the background) helps you avoid and/or resolve dependency conflicts automatically. Have fun & good luck! Carl

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-05-06 at 17:38 +0500, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:

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Try mpg321, that works okay for me.

-bash: mpg321: Command not found

Then find it with "pin mpg321" and install it. And if "pin" is not found, install "pin". }:-) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEXK8DtTMYHG2NR9URAtmLAJwKVxYftnzrZj29BsluY8nJvHS5LACfbuHh I/rOWvTtL9Xdrqy5u8oRukc= =mnLu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-05-06 at 19:55 +0500, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:

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Then find it with "pin mpg321" and install it. And if "pin" is not found, install "pin". }:-)

Pin also gives nothing from ARCHIVES_10.0.gz, At least I hadn't have to install pin, one positive point in all this ;)

I forgot the issues Novell have with those things. It came in 9.3, but not in 10.0. Or if it comes, it will be in the retail version. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEXMNmtTMYHG2NR9URAtiIAJ4+JNxI7zG7NI9cfsgqk4A/bah2gQCeO3CZ YwngUqki1XYRRxlDzPqehGM= =jpcR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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I believe the play command is part of the sox install.

I installed sox, but now it refuses to play mp3s...something like "Failed reading blablabla.mp3 Do not understand format type: mp3"

On my system I ran "sox -h" to show the supported file formats. mp3 wasn't one of them. However, doing a "man sox" I see: .mp3 MP3 Compressed Audio MP3 audio files come from the MPEG standards for audio and video compression. They are a lossy compression format that achieves good compression rates with a minimum amount of quality loss. Also see Ogg Vorbis for a similar format. MP3 support in SoX is optional and requires access to either or both the external libmad and libmp3lame libraries. To see if there is support for Mp3 run sox -h and look for it under the list of supported file formats as "mp3". -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-05-06 at 19:27 +0500, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:

bash # sox -t mp3 High_Hopes.mp3 -t wav High_Hopes.wav sox: Unknown input file format for 'Could.mp3': File type 'mp3' is not known

Maybe the problem is in libmad and libmp3lame libraries, but YaST gives nothing for both of them.

The first one I think comes with the retail version of SuSE, not on the download version. I can't check. As for lame, it certainly will not be provided by SuSE (license and pattent issues). - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEYxwCtTMYHG2NR9URAr8/AKCGzsQlCkpFxGDHRhvwiPSv0kLMTACdFgQB ++E1jM4AYx4r2Mp1GI84V58= =A7BN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----