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Reminds me of how I nuked my first Linux drive. I was using the cthugha[1] music visualizer app. You had to pass in a CD-ROM device as well as a DSP device (lon

Reminds me of how I nuked my first Linux drive. I was using the cthugha[1] music visualizer app. You had to pass in a CD-ROM device as well as a DSP device (long before ALSA existed). Instead of the DSP I probably passed in my hard drive. Whoops. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthugha_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthugha_(software)

ofalkaed 3y ago
I miss OSS and /dev/dsp, being able to write to the audio output like it was a file was great fun. I spent many hours back in the day just using bash scripting to make sound, I never got things good enough to make any worthwhile music but I did enjoy myself. Never accidentally specified /dev/hda instead of dsp but I did once do rm -r /usr instead of ./usr, switched to always using absolute paths for such things after that.
- Jenda_ 3y ago
  > I miss OSS and /dev/dsp, being able to write to the audio output like it was a file was great fun. I usually spawn "aplay" and pipe audio data into stdin, like it was a file.
- anthk 3y ago
  use play from sox.