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

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?

-- 
David
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