On 5/4/2018 12:47 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Fri, 04 May 2018 19:51:05 +0200, Jay Foster wrote:
I recently updated may alsa from 1.1.4.1 to 1.1.6. I now noticed that aplay does not work properly (the same as 1.1.4.1) when reading the sound file data from stdin. This might have something to do with the recent change with reading the sound file header.
With the previous version of aplay, aplay would report:
Playing WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono
With 1.1.6, aplay reports:
Playing raw data 'stdin' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
This results in static/noise output. If I explicitly add the '-f S16_LE -r 22050' options to aplay, then it does play correctly.
Is this a known bug and is there a fix?
It works fine on my system.
% aplay test.wav Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
% aplay < ~/test/test.wav Playing WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
% aplay --version aplay: version 1.1.6 by Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz
Takashi
Well, it does not work for me:
cat bird-calls.wav | /usr/bin/aplay -Dplughw:0 -- Playing raw data 'stdin' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono ^CAborted by signal Interrupt... aplay: pcm_write:2051: write error: Interrupted system call
aplay -Dplughw:0 bird-calls.wav Playing WAVE 'bird-calls.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
Looks like aplay may now have problems reading from stdin if stdin is a pipe.
Jay