Advice on using the utility ogg123

[bearcat]

I need advice on using the utility ogg123 with Manjaro Gnome. It plays .ogg files from the terminal.

I get this error:

[dmn@Sydney]$ ogg123 alarm2.ogg
Audio Device:   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
Playing: alarm2.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
ERROR: Cannot open device alsa.

I also tried specifing pulse, but again an error.

[dmn@Sydney]$ ogg123 -d pulse alarm2.ogg
Audio Device:   PulseAudio Output
Playing: alarm2.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
ERROR: Cannot open device pulse.

How do I get this to work?

[ishaan2479]

@bearcat

ERROR: Cannot open device alsa.

If you use pulseaudio, change /etc/libao.conf remove the dev line and change the default_driver= to pulse. If you only use alsa try without the dev line anyway. For some reason libao tries to use some strange parameters with it present.

Source

[bearcat]

Thanks for the advice. I removed the dev line, and tried both alsa and pulse as the default_driver. Pulse works, but not alsa. So pulse it is.

dmn@Sydney]$ ogg123 alarm2.ogg
Audio Device:   PulseAudio Output
Playing: alarm2.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
                                                                            
Done.

Problem solved. Thanks again.