sound doesn't work until I login

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 18:27 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> >If anyone with more sound know-how than I wants to suggest a more
> >flexible format for streaming through a pipe, do tell!
> I'm directly using sox in my script to play music

I don't know why I didn't think of trying that. sox seems to generate a
wav stream that aplay CAN handle. I did need to install libsox-fmt-all.

So after many a detour (and learning a lot), my system is now sox +
ALSA. No avconv, no pulseaudio.

Regards, K.

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