How do you play a sound in UNIX?

Is it possible to play a audio file from Unix? If so what format must it be in? What is the command to play it? How do you use that command?

mplayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu ) is a fairly common command line player. It can copy with most common and lots of uncommon media format.

mplayer myFile.mp3

2 Responses

  1. tkquestion Says:
    September 30th, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    There is no standard command in Unix that will play sound. Remember, traditional unix is a typewriter based OS. Unless the Unix is running on some workstations or PCs, most of them don't even have sound interfaces.
    References :

  2. David D Says:
    September 30th, 2007 at 10:47 pm

    mplayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu ) is a fairly common command line player. It can copy with most common and lots of uncommon media format.

    mplayer myFile.mp3
    References :

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