sound doesn't work until I login

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 07 Sep 2016 08:47:43 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>I want sound to play when my GUI-free Ubuntu 16.04 system starts. I
>have a script that plays sound

Hi Karl,

does the script really need a sound server?

Do you need to mix different sound sources that require resampling?

Even for this usage ALSA provides plugins, that are likely not that
user-friendly as a sound server, but I doubt that user interaction is
required, if a script should do the work anyway.

Regards,
Ralf