Yes, I was able to make it work. It turned out the recipe I used initially was configuring the package to use pulseaudio, so it wasn't really flying with ALSA.
I've rebuilt it with ALSA and SSE support and checked it to work just fine. Check out my blog post to find out command examples (very end of the post, as you've got most of the steps done already): Let's make some noise (or how to play audio on Edison)