I don't know about MacOSX, but on several unixes, 'play' is just a more or less elaborated script that writes on '/dev/audio' or '/dev/snd'
The 'sox' package includes such a script. Maybe it can be installed on MacOS X (?)
Christophe Pallier
Practically every Unix system I've used since about 1990 sports a play command that simply plays back a file without the need for a special GUI app -- including Linux. Some of them even had record commands. I find this very convenient, especially when working with shell scripts and simple C programs. However, my OS X 10.1 Terminal app (which emulates a Unix terminal) doesn't do it. Does anyone know if more recent OS X systems do?
Jim