Playing wav sound file in Linux in background?

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 18/05/2010 21:14, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> John Patten wrote:
>> Hi All...
>>
>> I've been having a problem playing back an audio file on a Linux 
>> computer using an "arecord"  a shell script to first create the audio 
>> file.
>>
>> The audio file gets created on the local machine, it then gets 
>> uploaded to an ftp directory, however when I go to play the sound 
>> file locally using just Rev it's just static white noise.
>
> This is a typical symptom of playing back a file format that Rev 
> doesn't support. You can't use any kind of compressed file format. Try 
> re-recording using an uncompressed format, preferably saving as .au 
> for Linux playback if possible.

That seems needlessly bothersome (re-recording); I would be inclined to 
convert them using Audacity:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

>
> I'm not sure, even so, whether Rev will wait for the whole file to 
> arrive before playing it. I suspect it will.
>