Play sound fast

[Sten Kvamme]

sön 2009-07-05 klockan 04:44 -0700 skrev Ben Wong:
> Nicola and Abelenda have given you the correct solutions (direct
> library calls or a sound daemon).  Here's an incorrect solution that
> has the sole benefit of being dead simple.
> 
>    cat click.au > /dev/audio
> 
> You'll want to convert the sound files to au format (Mu-law, 8kHz,
> mono) using: sox foo.wav -r 8000 -c 1 -U foo.au.
> 
> Although a brain dead kludge, writing directly to /dev/audio can
> sometimes be useful.  Just don't tell anyone I told you about it.  ;-)
> 
> --Ben
> 
> 
I kind of like KISS solutions and this one fits my programming
environment quite nice (I can use C libraries but I am a purist Erlang
programmer :)

I recorded a wav, converted to au with sox and cat to /dev/audio
Latency was < 0.5 sec but the file was played twice??

> 
> 2009/7/5 Sten Kvamme <sten at kvamme.se>:
> > Buttons with some action sound (eg klick, boink or broken glass) should
> > have minimal latency between touching the button and the sound.
> >
> > I have tested mplayer, madplay and aplay and mplayer is the slowest,
> > aplay is the fastest with < 1sec latency. Are there faster players
> > around? I found that the timing corresponds to the player binary file
> > size, where mplayer is 2884588, madplay is 84028 and aplay is 54284.
> >
> > So, what I am looking for is maybe a smaller player than aplay.
> >
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