WAVEPLAY(1) BSD General Commands Manual WAVEPLAY(1)NAMEwaveplay — an audio player
SYNOPSISwaveplay [-chrs] [-b size] [-B bits] [-C channels] [-f dev] [-S rate] [-]
[file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The waveplay utility plays audio files. The file operands are processed
in command line order. A single dash represents the standard input.
Supported formats are Windows RIFF WAVE format (only linear PCM) and lin‐
ear PCM raw format without header.
The options are as follows:
-b size Use an audio output buffer of size kbytes. The default size
is 2 kbytes.
-B bits Specify the number of bits per sample. The default is 16.
-c The audio data are written to standard output.
-C channels
Specify the number of channels. The default is 2 (stereo).
-f dev Specify the audio device to use. The default is /dev/dsp.
-h Print a help message and exit.
-r Treat an input file as raw format. You can specify the sam‐
pling rate, the number of bits per sample, and the number of
channels with the -S, -B, and -C options, respectively, in
which case the -r option can be omitted.
-s Silent mode. Suppress messages.
-S rate Specify the sampling frequencey. The default is 44100(Hz).
AUTHORS
The waveplay command was written by Yoshihide SONODA ⟨yshd@na.rim.or.jp⟩.
BSD December 25, 1999 BSD
