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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I tried this with a radio URL and was told:
> > sox:  Type AUTO input must be a file, not a pipe.
>
> In English: sox cannot autodetect a filetype unless it "sees" the
> file extension. It obviously can't do this with a pipe. You need
> to pass options which tell it what kind of input it is receiving.
>
> > I could try writing a script to produce audiodump.wav and pipe that
> > to play but this seems unnecessarily complex, considering Ron got
> > it to work directly.
>
> I agree. It would only be useful for decoding things which mpg123
> cannot handle.

So what am I missing to make mplayer play wav or mp3 files directly?