Linux audio modules?

[Kirsle]

I was wondering if there are any Perl modules that can "natively" play audio files on Linux?

i.e. on Windows there was the standard module Win32::Sound which could play wav files, and then Win32::MediaPlayer used a Windows DLL to play pretty much any type of audio file. Does Linux have any easy solutions like that, or do I have to go and install Audio-Audiere or some other heavy package?

The closest I could find was Audio:lay, but it seems to need some form of audio data to play, not a file name.

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[Kirsle]

Okay, this is one of my last three questions which have gone unanswered, which I have found a solution to by myself.

And... the best I've found so far is to use SDL-Perl, and use the SDL::Sound module, which can play WAV files. SDL::Sound can be used independently from an SDL application, so it's good for playing sound effects even from the terminal.

Now to investigate playing MIDI files...

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