I'm going to ressurrect this archived post because I'm trying to do the exact same thing. I'm trying to get my empeg to play a startup sound during bootup. To do this I need a program that can be called from my init script to play an audio file. This pcmplay (from http://www.empeg.mars.org/devel/hardware/audio.php3 ) program would be perfect, if only it worked. Could any of the experienced programmers out there see if they could get this program working again? Thank you.