Best way to play recording in Fedora

[Rickey Moore]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 11:07 -0400, WGregory wrote:

> I want to be able to play an audio sound or recording (preferably a
> voice recording I have created) from a file on my Fedora server to a
> speaker that is connected to the system.  The purpose is to alert the
> night crew when there is a problem.  
> 
> I am running Fedora 5 on my test system.  I inserted a music CD on the
> Fedora 5 system.  It began playing the CD using Totem 1.3.92.  However,
> I cannot access files on the CD.  Mount shows "automount."   There is
> nothing in the /mnt or /media directories.
> 
> What is the best way to create an audio file on Fedora and play it using
> either (1) a C program (preferably), or (2) the shell command line?
> What is the best program and associated file type to accomplish this
> under Fedora?


Mplayer, hands down, is the winner as I see it. Nary a burp in the
barrel. Ric
 
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