[LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty --musicisjustone path

[david]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:19 -1000, david wrote:
>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 11:57 -1000, david wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Well, there is a Linux program that will read the entire contents of a
>>>>> hard drive as though it were one big audio file.  So I guess we have
>>>>> no more need for musicians, because that would be a collection of sine
>>>>> waves of various frequencies, and that's all it takes.
>>>> What's the name of that program? I want to listen to my /home folder! ;-)
>>> cat(1)
>> Cat to what?
> 
> cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/dsp^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> 
> to listen to ~:
> 
> 	find ~ | xargs cat > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p

Hmmm, that plays nothing for me. When I ls /dev/snd, I see:

controlC0  controlC2  midiC2D1  midiC2D3  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D2c  pcmC0D4p 
pcmC1D0p  timer
controlC1  midiC2D0   midiC2D2  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D1c  pcmC0D3c  pcmC1D0c  seq

How to figure out which device is connected to my sound card?

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