Playing .au sound files

[Malcolm Kay]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:37 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au
> > sound files.
>
> It's just
>
> # play file.au
>

Uli,
I tried that too. But it is all over in a flash. 
(Just a plop).
Can I be missing some sort of timing mechanism or
perhaps some sort of setup on the sound devices.

Malcolm