paplay

Play back audio files on a PulseAudio sound server

Synopsis

paplay [options] FILE

paplay --help

paplay --version

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source

            
  if [[ `which paplay`
  ]]


  then


  paplay "$@"


  elif [[
  `which aplay`
  ]]


  then


  aplay "$@"


  fi



  exit

description

paplay is a simple tool for playing back audio files on a PulseAudio sound server. It understands all audio file formats supported by libsndfile.

options

-h | --help

Show help.

--version

Show version information.

-v | --verbose

Enable verbose operation. Dumps the current playback time to STDERR during playback.

-s | --server=SERVER

Choose the server to connect to.

-d | --device=SINK

Specify the symbolic name of the sink to play this file on.

-n | --client-name=NAME

Specify the client name paplay shall pass to the server when connecting.

--stream-name=NAME

Specify the stream name paplay shall pass to the server when creating the stream.

--volume=VOLUME

Specify the initial playback volume to use. Choose a value between 0 (silent) and 65536 (100% volume).

--channel-map=CHANNELMAP

Explicitly choose a channel map when playing back this stream. The argument should be a comma separated list of channel names: front-left, front-right, mono, front-center, rear-left, rear-right, rear-center, lfe, front-left-of-center, front-right-of-center, side-left, side-right, top-center, top-front-center, top-front-left, top-front-right, top-rear-left, top-rear-right, top-rear-center, or any of the 32 auxiliary channel names aux0 to aux31.

limitations

Due to a limitation in libsndfile paplay currently does not always set the correct channel mapping for playback of multichannel (i.e. surround) audio files, even if the channel mapping information is available in the audio file.

see also

pulseaudio , pacat

authors

The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from http://pulseaudio.org/