On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, Lee wrote:
I don't have play, so I tried aplay .. and it works, even if I'm logged out, even if someone else is logged in. ## run the script every minute $ crontab -l | tail -3 # m h dom mon dow command * * * * * /home/lee/bin/neener.sh ## which plays a .wav and an .au file $ cat ~/bin/neener.sh #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/Old/NEENER.WAV sleep 0.25 /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/SunOS/busy.au
I get the following error message from aplay: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1075:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or resource busy and a different message from play: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1075:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave /usr/bin/play FAIL sox: Sorry, there is no default audio device configuredI'm wondering what causes this. Do you have any specific environment variable set which defines a default audio device?
Roger