most direct way to get audio file to sound card?

[BSD baby]

What's the most direct way to cat an audio file into the sound card?

The FreeBSD manual talks about wavplay or mpg123 or xmms, but what
if I just want to send an audio file to the sound card without an
application inbetween?




(Reason why - I want to make a quick shell script to play my flac
audio files.  I can use sox to convert to wav or raw on the fly,
but still can't get it to the sound card.)