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		ofalkaed on April 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The early days of Linux I miss OSS and /dev/dsp, being able to write to the audio output like it was a file was great fun. I spent many hours back in the day just using bash scripting to make sound, I never got things good enough to make any worthwhile music but I did enjoy myself. Never accidentally specified /dev/hda instead of dsp but I did once do rm -r /usr instead of ./usr, switched to always using absolute paths for such things after that.

Jenda_ on April 15, 2023 | [–]

> I miss OSS and /dev/dsp, being able to write to the audio output like it was a file was great fun.

I usually spawn "aplay" and pipe audio data into stdin, like it was a file.

anthk on April 16, 2023 | [–]

use play from sox.

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