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   On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 10:34:56 -0000 (UTC), Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 02:17:36 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
   >> It doesn't work.  Pulseaudio seems to hang.  Sometimes it plays the   
   >> sound later--maybe after a shut down and restart?  I didn't carefully   
   >> note the scenario.   
   >   
   > My guess is that when called from at, your script will call play which   
   > will not, as you assume, use pulsaudio. Instead I guess that play uses   
   > some other, older audio device like /dev/audio which is blocked by some   
   > other application (pulseaudio?). When that other application releases   
   > the device play will get to play its sound.   
   >   
   > On the manpage of play is a description of the environment variable   
   > AUDIODEV that can be used to tell play which audio device to use.   
   >   
   > regards Henrik   
      
   Henrik,   
      
   Thank you for your reply.  You gave me some things to think about.   
      
   By the way I ran some more tests, and it seems there is something wrong   
   with my installation.  I tested scheduling a simple event without sound,   
   and that showed the same trouble.   
      
   Then I did the same simple test on a different Slackware installation,   
   and it worked with no trouble, although I didn't go so far as to test the   
   sound.   
      
   It seems my system is due for some upgrading--to try to chase the bugs   
   out.   
      
   -Joe   
      
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