Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Pipe Audio To Aplay

2018-07-27 Thread Jay Foster
What version of aplay?  If it is version 1.1.6, you might be running into this issue: From: Takashi Iwai Subject: [PATCH] aplay: Fix invalid file size check for non-regular files aplay tries to check the file size via fstat() at parsing the format headers and avoids parsing when the size is

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Pipe Audio To Aplay

2018-07-27 Thread Fabian Russell
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:54 PM, chris hermansen wrote: > > Have you tried specifying the parameters of the stream? > > -- Sure. That would work. But first the extra step of determining the audio file parameters must be taken. The point is that aplay should be able to determine the

Re: [Alsa-user] Can't Pipe Audio To Aplay

2018-07-27 Thread chris hermansen
Fabian and list, On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:37 AM Fabian Russell wrote: > I'd like to pipe flac files to aplay using the command: > > flac -d -c file.flac | aplay > > However, aplay does not read the audio file parameters and assumes that > all stdin data is 8 kHz, 8-bit, mono. The following

[Alsa-user] Can't Pipe Audio To Aplay

2018-07-27 Thread Fabian Russell
I'd like to pipe flac files to aplay using the command: flac -d -c file.flac | aplay However, aplay does not read the audio file parameters and assumes that all stdin data is 8 kHz, 8-bit, mono. The following message appears: Playing raw data 'stdin' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono This

[Alsa-user] Bower's & Wilkins PX headphone - snd-usb-audio error

2018-07-27 Thread alsa
Hello list, I've got a pair of Bower's & Wilkins PX headphones which can be connected via USB to play audio on it (this works under windows). Under linux, with kernel 4.18.0-rc6, it seems that snd-usb-audio doesn't like the device: usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd