On 02/10/2014 10:16 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote: >> It sounded great. So checking, play is provided by sox 14.4.1-4. >> That begs the >> question, Why does play work fine but aplay fail? > > I believe aplay does not support ogg and only supports wav. Don't > ask --- I don't know why. > > Darrell > I think .xsession-errors has some hints: /opt/trinity/bin/artsd: symbol lookup error: /opt/trinity/lib/libarts_xine.so.0: undefined symbol: ao_new_port ao_new_port is something tdemultimedia looks for in xine during build and it is not present on my system -- never has been. From the tdemultimedia logs: tde-tdemultimedia-i686.log:648:checking for _x_ao_new_port in -lxine... no tde-tdemultimedia-i686.log:649:checking for ao_new_port... no tde-tdemultimedia-x86_64.log:647:checking for _x_ao_new_port in -lxine... no tde-tdemultimedia-x86_64.log:648:checking for ao_new_port... no The only difference in the build this time regarding arts or tdemultimedia was that I built arts with WITH_GCC_VISIBILITY=ON. cmake ${srcdir}/arts/ \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${TDEDIR} \ -DWITH_GCC_VISIBILITY=ON \ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release I do NOT think this was a good idea. For some reason, I don't think the code (or the cmake build) is fully checked/ready for enabling this explicitly in all cases. I'll test without the option and report back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.