Re: gperiodic

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Ramin Miraftabi wrote:
> 
> >
> > what are .au files?  what's their format?  do I have to translate them into
> > the raw audio foramt, or can they ben directly cat'ted to /dev/dsp?
> 
> .au's are what started it... At times I've had problems with .wav's
> cat'd to /dev/audio... (or /dev/dsp).
> 
That's one of the reasons I mentioned them.  Depending on the internal
structure of the .wav files they can give poor reproduction when cat'd
to /dev/audio.  The sound HOWTOs at the LDP go into that in a bit of
detail.

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