AUPLAY(1)

📦 version 1.9.5, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 AUPLAY — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you opened AUPLAY(1) from the General Commands Manual and honestly? iconic choice. this is the page for auplay, and by the end of it you're gonna be playing sound files to a Network Audio System server like it's nothing. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

auplay — play a sound file to a Network Audio System server 🎵

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, the auplay program is what you use to play audio data stored in the .SND, .AU, or .WAV formats — the ones that are common on Sun workstations and PCs. it's typically used from shell scripts or command line procedures, which lowkey makes it the main character of your automation pipeline. 💅

and here's the tea: if no filenames are given on the command line, audio data will be read from stdin, unless the -l option is given. not me explaining stdin like it's a plot twist, but there it is. 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the following options may be used with the auplay program:

  • -audio servername — this option specifies the Network Audio System server on which the files should be played. yes bestie, you get to pick the server. 👑
  • -volume 0-100 — this option specifies the volume at which the data should be played, as a percentage of the maximum possible volume. the default is 100 percent. so if you say nothing, it's giving full blast. 🔥
  • -i — this option indicates that the header information associated with the sound data should be printed along with playing the data. play and spill the metadata. obsessed. ✨
  • -I — this option indicates that the header information associated with the sound data should be printed instead of playing the data. so like, receipts only, no sound. 🙈
  • -l — this option indicates that a list of filenames is to be read from stdin. auplay will play these files after playing any files given explicitly as command line arguments. order matters, periodt. 📋
fr fr, remember the -l lineup: command line files first, then the ones from stdin. don't get it twisted. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

nas(1), auctl(1), audemo(1), autool(1) — go read those too, the lore is deep. 🫶

Copyright 1993, 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc.

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Greg Renda, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was auplay version 1.9.5 from the General Commands Manual, and you understood every word of it. slay 💖✨🎀🦋

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