NAME
paplay - Play back audio files on a PulseAudio sound server
SYNOPSIS
paplay [options] FILE
paplay --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.
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.
AUTHORS
The PulseAudio Developers <mzchyfrnhqvb (at) 0pointer (dot) net>;
PulseAudio is available from http://pulseaudio.org/
SEE ALSO
pulseaudio(1), pacat(1)