Use custom commands to play audio files

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Use custom commands to play audio files #13

Open ShadowMitia opened 8 years ago

ShadowMitia commented 8 years ago

Hello,

It would be nice if we could manually set the command (afplay, aplay) for systems that don't have those installed. Or maybe someone needs/wants to use another command for specific purposes.

For example on my computer I have archlinux (and it's probably true for other linux distributions), I don't have ALSA installed which has the aplay command, so this mode doesn't work for me. But I do have play which works the same, I would love to be able to change the setting in my config file.

Anton-Latukha commented 5 years ago

What is the setup you have that does not use ALSA on Linux?

ShadowMitia commented 5 years ago

I don't really remember. From what I wrote I had Archlinux, and I just followed the instructions to setup a system. I believe that system had Gnome as a DE, but really don't remember.

Anton-Latukha commented 5 years ago

So you definitely should had used ALSA then.

There is some minor probability to be able not to use the ALSA now, PipeWire claims it can replace ALSA, but I don't know how that can be possible without porting/adding full emulation of ALSA for all Kernel drivers for sound systems in there.