Play MP3 or WAV file via the Linux command line

penguin_pam

I would like to make an alarm system backed by a Ubuntu (no graphical interface) box, which plays various announcement and alarm audio tracks (.mp3 or .wav) via the command line. For example: $ root> audioplay ./hello.wav The audio should come from the PC audio jack. I might also wrap it with another socket listener (for example, Ruby Sinatra )....

Originally asked by c2h2 on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Good Linux question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The play command from the sox package will play any file format supported by sox using the default audio device, e.g $ play something.mp3 $ play something.wav You may need to install extra packages to gain support for all formats, for example on Ubuntu 11.04 the MP3 support is not available until you install libsox-fmt-mp3 .

Full answer by user89061: https://superuser.com/a/308441 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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