[SOLVED] How to play a short audio clip from BASH

[minus24]

What's the best way to play a short audio clip (e.g., an alarm bell) from a BASH script? At the moment I'm using totem, but it's overkill to have its GUI start up! I'd prefer just a simple command for one-off playing of an audio clip.

[ron999]

Hi
You could use mplayer, like this:-

mplayer <filename>

[minus24]

Thanks. Suppressing stdout and stderr, the following worked just fine:

#!/bin/bash
(sleep ${1:-240}; mplayer /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav >/dev/null 2>&1) &

[edtakken]

Thanks. Suppressing stdout and stderr, the following worked just fine:

#!/bin/bash
(sleep ${1:-240}; mplayer /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav >/dev/null 2>&1) &

In OS X the player command is afplay
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