missing read-only files uuid and boot_id

2014-08-18 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
Hi Cygwin team, to be more compatible to Linux environment, cygwin should provide 2 more virtual files: The read-only files uuid and boot_id contain random strings like 6fd5a44b-35f4-4ad4-a9b9-6b9be13e1fe9. The former is generated afresh for each read, the latter was generated once. they

Re: sox - package is broken

2014-03-17 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
Hi thanks for all participants in this audio thread. (I hope this post is auto-connected to the thread with this name - I seldom use mailinglists. If not, sorry for that) This weekend, I was also woundering about the way the exit/stop/close is donw or if it can work. But I found another issue

Bug in /dev/dsp = problems at short wav-files (2sec)

2014-03-12 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
/dev/dsp has problems playing short wav-files! # Cygwin 1.7.28 (32bit), Windows 7 (64 bit). # get 2 test files here ( 25 kB both ) wget http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~aleks/wave14sL.wav wget http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/~aleks/wave16sL.wav # Test that fails: cp wave16sL.wav /dev/dsp == I hear

Re: sox - package is broken

2014-03-09 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
Hi Dave, yes, /dev/dsp seems to be broken. short wav-files are silent, long ones ( 2sec) are ok (hearable). Alexander -- On 26/02/2014 22:38, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote: 1st sox problem: in Cygwin 1.7.28 sound is broken. (sox + play) I followed all hints

sox - package is broken

2014-02-26 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
Hi Cygwin Team, 1st sox problem: in Cygwin 1.7.28 sound is broken. (sox + play) I followed all hints as reply to my first post last week. $ play blip.wav blip.wav: File Size: 1.33k Bit Rate: 94.4k Encoding: Unsigned PCM Channels: 1 @ 8-bit Samplerate: 11025Hz Replaygain: off Duration:

sox - package is broken

2014-02-24 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
Hi Cygwin Team As reply for my Post: aplay (audio) support for cygwin - solution I got the hint to: Install the Cygwin packages 'sox' and 'sox-fmt-*' But installation of these sox packages is broken! I tried it on 3 computers and i have successfull installed Cygwin many times before. Error

aplay (audio) support for cygwin - solution

2014-02-23 Thread Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge
Hi Cygwin-Team I have a working suggestion to support basic aplay funcionallity for cygwin. (aplay plays audio from command line.) using this free 31 kB tool, download sounder.exe (sourcecode free avail., but VisualBasic) # http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/commandline-wav-player.php and copy