How do I play a sound in Octave?

Question

Octave appears to assume that a specific sound playing utility will be available on a system but doesn\'t seem to provide the ability to specify an alternate. In the error

Answer 1

I am on a Mac (Yosemite), and discovered a simpler solution than what others have suggested. Just in case this is still relevant for anybody:

First install SoX: http://sox.sourceforge.net/

(via Homebrew)

brew install sox

Now on the terminal command line you can use:

play “/path/to/sound file.wav"

...and you will hear beautiful music.

But that command does not work from within Octave. This does work:

system(‘play “/path/to/sound file.wav”’);