>a good place to start, would be yes > /dev/audio, which outputs a high whining as the value 'y' is sent as audio over and over. The key point of this combinat

>a good place to start, would be yes > /dev/audio, which outputs a high whining as the value 'y' is sent as audio over and over. The key point of this combination is that yes outputs "y\ny\ny\n...". If you just send one character over and over you don't hear anything - I think the difference between adjacent character values determines the frequency of the output. >Plus if there are any sound files on your drive saved in a lossless format they just play at random and then disappear back into the soup. They need to be uncompressed (ie. contain raw audio data), not just lossless.