Play app

[jronc]

I typed on the Command line of terminal: sudo apt-get install play. The loading process started and then stopped saying it could not find play.
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 with all the updates installed. I wanted to use play to play music from the Terminal. How do I secure this app. What repository do I download?
The terminal gave me the actual command line so I was confused as to why it didn't work.

[oldos2er]

sudo apt-get install sox

[tgalati4]

aplay or mocp (sudo apt-get install moc). I'm not familiar with play.

tgalati4@Mint14-Extensa ~ $ apt-cache policy play
N: Unable to locate package play

D'Oh! Yes, sox contains the program play.

sudo apt-get install sox

[jronc]

Thank you for the assistance. I entered that at the command line and I am now able to use play. Unfortunately, it only seems to work with ogg. I have tried it with mp3 and m4a and it tells me that it won't work with those file extenders. But, it works great for ogg music files.

[oldos2er]

If you install libsox-fmt-mp3 it should work.

sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-mp3

Edit: Or you could use mplayer in CLI too.

[jronc]

I entered the command line you suggested to secure the mp3 but after it read the package list said that the value 'mp3' is invalid for APT:efault - Release as such a release is not
available in the sources.


Any more Ideas?

Thank you again for your assistance!

[oldos2er]

Try

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-mp3

If there are errors please copy and paste all the terminal output here.

[jronc]

I will give this a shot. However, I tried using mplayer with an tune with an mp3 extension and it worked just fine. However, mplayer would not play the tunes with the m4a extension. Will try it after I update the library and let you know my failure or success.

[oldos2er]

Sounds like you're missing codecs. Try

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

[jronc]

I entered the command sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and it came back saying that i had the latest version installed so it made not updates. Oh, well mplayer works with mp3 files so I can create a directory of files with those extensions to play around with.

One more question, I have tried to Ctrl-C the terminal screen and when I ctrl-V the forum screen, I only get the command line but not the rest of the output in response to the command. I tried to dump using the word processor to see if it was the terminal. All that wa copied to the word procesor screen was what was copied to the forum screen. So, how do you copy the output of a command if you don't use Ctrl-C?

Thanks for you assistance. This was a good experience and I actually learned some new stuff so I thank you again.