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

SEE ALSO

       pulseaudio(1), pacat(1)

Manuals                                               User                                             paplay(1)