Playing MP3 when not root

[arnesten]

Until recently I have always logged on as root, but as that is dangerous to the system I decided to begin to login as a normal user.
However when I tried to play an mp3 song I got the error message: "Unable to open the audio device - Pipe broken".
I have tried to chmod the mp3 song as well as /dev/audio and /dev/audio1, but it made no difference.

So how should I do in order to be able to play a mp3 as a normal user? As root it works fine.

[ 10 March 2001: Message edited by: arnesten ]

[cotfessi]

hey... I had a similar problem a few weeks ago... here is what some one told me to do:

change to root and execute the following commands:


chmod 777 /dev/audio
chmod 777 /dev/dsp
chmod 777 /dev/mixer