sound doesn't work until I login

[Nils Kassube]

Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 18:27 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > 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.

Sorry I didn't mention my version earlier, but I'm glad it works for 
you. Actually I wasn't following this thread too closely because it was 
all about pulseaudio, avconv, etc. which are things I haven't played 
with enough to comment …


Nils