Use custom commands to play audio files

[ShadowMitia]

Hello,

It would be nice if we could manually set the command (afplay, aplay) for systems that don't have those installed. Or maybe someone needs/wants to use another command for specific purposes.

For example on my computer I have archlinux (and it's probably true for other linux distributions), I don't have ALSA installed which has the aplay command, so this mode doesn't work for me. But I do have play which works the same, I would love to be able to change the setting in my config file.

[Anton-Latukha]

What is the setup you have that does not use ALSA on Linux?

[ShadowMitia]

I don't really remember. From what I wrote I had Archlinux, and I just followed the instructions to setup a system. I believe that system had Gnome as a DE, but really don't remember.

[Anton-Latukha]

So you definitely should had used ALSA then.

There is some minor probability to be able not to use the ALSA now, PipeWire claims it can replace ALSA, but I don't know how that can be possible without porting/adding full emulation of ALSA for all Kernel drivers for sound systems in there.