Duncan McEwan wrote:
> Xmms fails to play an mpeg3 file, and if I try something much simpler I get the
> following...
> 
> 	 cat welcome.au > /dev/audio
> 	 /dev/audio: Invalid argument.

As was mentioned, some codecs don't support variable rate, and
only work with single fixed rate (typically 48KHz). If you
do cat >/dev/audio, it tries to use the device with  rate 8KHz,
which would not work.

With similarily crippled auvia,

	mpg123 -r 48000 file.mp3
 
did the trick :)

Jaromir
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