You're thinking of /dev/dsp, which was an OSS thing before the move to ALSA. It still exists on the BSDs AFAIR but has to be emulated on modern Linux: https://u

You're thinking of /dev/dsp, which was an OSS thing before the move to ALSA. It still exists on the BSDs AFAIR but has to be emulated on modern Linux: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103746/why-wont-linux-let-me-play-with-dev-dsp https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103746/why-wont-lin...