play - play any sound file to audio device
rec - record audio to any sound file format
SYNOPSIS
play [fopts] infile [effect]
rec [fopts] outfile [effect]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the play and rec com
mand.
play and rec are programs that allows you to play and
record different types of sound files. It is a frontend to
the more general sox package. Normally the play command
will detect the type and other parameters of the sound
file. If it can't do so, the parameters can be changed
through options.
OPTIONS
A summary of common options are included below. For a
complete description of options and thier values, see the
sox(1) man page.
-c [channels], --channels=[channels]
Define the number of channels of the file.
-d [device], --device=[device]
Specify a different device to play the sound file
to.
-f [format], --format=[format]
Specifies bit format of sample. One of s, u, U, A,
a, or g.
-r [rate], --rate=[rate]
Define the samplerate of the audio data.
-s [size], --size=[size]
interpret size of sample. One of b, w, l, f, d, or
D.
-t [type], --type=[type]
Specifies audio file format to use. Useful if it
can not be determined on its own.
-v [volume], --volume=[volume]
Change the audio volume
-x , --xinu
Reverse the byte order of the sample (only works
with 16 and 32-bit data).
Show summary of options.
--version
Show version of play/rec.
Description of effects are described in the sox man page.
SEE ALSO
sox(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Guenter Geiger
<geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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