afplay does not work for UR816C on macOS Catalina

Steinberg Lounge
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Audio play command “afplay” on macOS does not work for UR816C. The same command works for builtin loudspeaker and other audio interfaces such as PreSonus STUDIO 2|6 USB.

Thanx in advance

Hardware
MacBookPro15,2
Software
macOS 10.15.2 (19C57)

Driver
Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver V2.0.2

Example terminal command and output
kawahara@MacBook-Pro-4 rtImpFVN % afplay -d test440.wav
Playing file: test440.wav
Playing format: AudioStreamBasicDescription: 1 ch, 44100 Hz, ‘lpcm’ (0x0000000C) 16-bit little-endian signed integer
Buffer Byte Size: 44100, Num Packets to Read: 22050

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SOLVED!

This issue was fixed by the recent update of macOS Catalina. Audio play command “afplay” successfully played sound.

Software
macOS 10.15.3 (19D76)

Example terminal command and output
kawahara@MacBook-Pro-4 rtImpFVN % afplay -d testfvn172k.wav
Playing file: testfvn172k.wav
Playing format: AudioStreamBasicDescription: 1 ch, 176400 Hz, ‘lpcm’ (0x0000000C) 16-bit little-endian signed integer
Buffer Byte Size: 176400, Num Packets to Read: 88200