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CapnWinky07
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aplay

Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:42 pm

Simple question that I hope has a simple answer. I have a Raspberry Pi 3. Fresh install of N00bs/Raspbian as of 1 hour ago. When I go to run 'aplay -i' it doesn't report anything back. It's like it's thinking but essentially I just have to x out of it to return back to anything. Why would it do that? Thanks in advance
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Douglas6
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Re: aplay

Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:59 pm

That's normal. You haven't told it to play anything, so it doesn't. What were you expecting?
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Re: aplay

Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:11 pm

Or did you actually try to get a list of devices?
For that the parameter is l (for list) not i (for interactive)
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Re: aplay

Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:16 pm

And that's a lower-case 'L' (for list), not an upper-case 'i'.
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Re: aplay

Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:38 pm

Thanks again. I tried out a new SD card and it seems to be resolved as well as some other issues!
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Re: aplay

Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:47 pm

Using the proper command probably didn't hurt either.
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