I've made the mistake in this article by piping something that wasn't uncompressed audio to /dev/dsp. These days I prefer to work with speakers with a physical

I've made the mistake in this article by piping something that wasn't uncompressed audio to /dev/dsp. These days I prefer to work with speakers with a physical volume knob and start it at 0 with unknown sources... you just never know what the yahoos upstream are sending you.