SYNOPSIS
paplay [options] FILEpaplay --help
paplay --version
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.