AUPLAY(1)

📦 version 1.9.4, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 AUPLAY(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for auplay — a lil General Commands Manual situation, and she's so good at her job.

✨ NAME ✨

auplay — play a sound file to a Network Audio System server 🎧✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

auplay [-audio servername] [-volume 0-100] [-i] [-I] [-l] files...

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so auplay is the girl who plays your audio data, and she plays it in the formats that are common on Sun workstations and PCs — we're talking .SND, .AU, and .WAV. iconic trio, no notes. 👑

she's typically used from shell scripts or command line procedures, iykyk — she's not out here begging for attention, she just shows up and does the thing.

and here's the part where you gotta pay attention bestie: if you give her no filenames on the command line, she's gonna read the audio data from stdin. 🫶 unless you gave her the -l option, in which case she does something else entirely (we'll get there, keep reading babe).

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the following options may be used with the auplay program — and yes, we're doing all of them, nobody's getting skipped in this house:

  • -audio servername — this one specifies the Network Audio System server on which the files should be played. so like, where the party's happening. 🌈
  • -volume 0-100 — specifies the volume at which the data should be played, expressed as a percentage of the maximum possible volume. and the default? 100 percent. as she should. 🔊🔥
  • -i — this option means the header information associated with the sound data gets printed along with playing the data. so you get the lore and the music, periodt. 📜🎶
  • -I — capital-I bestie, don't get it twisted — this one prints that header information instead of playing the data. like, you came for the metadata and only the metadata. respect. 🙈
  • -l — this one says a list of filenames is to be read from stdin. and here's the sequencing tea: auplay will play these files after playing any files given explicitly as command line arguments. order matters, okay?? ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go bother her friends, they're all iconic too:

Copyright 1993, 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc. — the legal girlies have spoken, don't be weird about it. 🫡

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Greg Renda, Network Computing Devices, Inc. — thank you for your service king, we owe you everything. 🎀

fr fr, that's the whole page. no cap. go play some sounds. 💖

this has been version 1.9.4 of the AUPLAY(1) manual page, brought to you with love from your favorite general commands manual — mwah, slay, bye bestie! 💅✨🌸

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