PRAAT-OPEN-FILES(1)

💖 PRAAT-OPEN-FILES(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for praat-open-files, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, k? it's giving "tiny utility, huge main character energy" ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

praat-open-files — open sound files with Praat 🎧

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

praat-open-files [–new] file [file ...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so literally, the praat-open-files command lets you open sound files with praat straight from the command line. no clicking around, no drama. 💅

and the best part? any file type recognized by Praat can be handed to it as an argument — WAV, FLAC, MP3, etc. it just gets it. 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --new — launch a new instance of praat for viewing and editing the sound files. ✨ but here's the default tea: by default, praat-open-files try to open the files in an running praat program, and opens a new one if necessary. iykyk 😌

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💜 EXAMPLES 💜

open the three specified files with individual View & Edit windows for each one on a running instance of praat:

praat-open-files file.wav relative/path/file.flac /absolute/path/file.mp3

open file.wav in a new instance of praat:

praat-open-files --new file.wav

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rafael Laboissière <rafael@laboissiere.net> 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

for further information, see the Praat website <http://www.praat.org>. 🧚

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and that's the whole page bestie — source is the User Commands manual, dated April 22, 2013, and the manual name is PRAAT-OPEN-FILES(1). slay, go open some sound files. 💅✨🦋