audio fails under sudo

[Geoffrey Leach]

I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation.
Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root

sudo mpg123 t.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
	version 1.31.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
	free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

[src/libout123/modules/alsa.c:open_alsa():181] error: cannot open device default
[src/libout123/libout123.c:check_output_module():947] error: Module 'alsa' device
open failed.
[src/libout123/libout123.c:out123_open():439] error: Found no driver out of [alsa] working
with device <default>.
main: [src/mpg123.c:check_fatal_output():334] error: out123 error 3: failure loading
driver module