On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 08:46:40 -0800
"Doug Herr" <fedoraproject.org(a)wombatz.com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, at 8:13 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation.
> Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root
>
> sudo mpg123 t.mp3
I think that is considered a feature and not a bug, but thinking
about what is happening I realized that the below would work, since
root hands the `cat` output back to the user...
8:42-doug@wombat-~/sound>sudo chown root:root laser.mp3
8:42-doug@wombat-~/sound>sudo cat laser.mp3 | mpg123 -
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
version 1.31.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and
others free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
Terminal control enabled, press 'h' for listing of keys and functions.
Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: - ...
MPEG 2.0 L III cbr32 22050 mono
[0:10] Decoding of - finished.
Hmmm ... neat :-). Many thanks.