<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv9495921177gmail_extra"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">></font></font>If you insist into fixing your broken setup and/or user account settings, please hire some linux expert >(may also read: "ask in your circle of friends") and let him check your system on-site. In depth >debugging of a misconfigured system is impossible over mailing lists (and out of scope, too). Thank >you for your understanding.</div><div class="yiv9495921177yqt1620860351"
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</div></div><div class="y_msg_container"><br>Actually, the system works fine. pulseaudio is the problem. I'm not trying to do anything complicated: mixing multiple sounds, or editing or anything. I'm only trying to play a simple .wav file. Before pulseaudio, this would work with a simple command like 'cat file.wav > dev.audio' or something like that.<br><br>I have another Linux machine running the same version of CentOS in which the audio group doesn't include my user account, but sound works okay. So I'm thinking /etc/group isn't the problem. But I'll add my username to that group and post the results.<br><br>I've used Linux for almost 20 years and sounds worked fine for the vast majority of them. It's only since pulseaudio was enforced on us, that I've had sound problems.<br><br>Thanks again for helping. I'll keep trying and post results.<br><br>My suggestion to the pulseaudio developers would be to
create a trouble-shooting guide for people trying to do simple things: like playing a .wav file.<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>