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From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Playing .wav files?
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 17:42:35
Message-Id: CAJjrzcXS8YJ-yCcroyKHZXTiXf9WG+T7ZKTFDKUSZeiQNKzRpw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Playing .wav files? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 18:28, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hello list,
4 >
5 > What do you use to play .wav files? I've come across a collection which I'd
6 > like to be able to play, but I can't find a usable player in Gentoo. Media-
7 > sound/wavplay doesn't do it.
8
9 I play them in audacious, which is my regular audio player, but if you
10 have some hard-to-play files maybe try ffplay from the ffmpeg package?
11 ffmpeg tends to handle most formats after all.
12
13 Regards,
14 Arve