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ADPLAY(1) User Commands ADPLAY(1) NAME adplay - AdPlay/UNIX console-based OPL2 audio player SYNOPSIS adplay [OPTION]... FILE... DESCRIPTION AdPlay/UNIX is AdPlug's UNIX console-based frontend. It tries to play back all given FILEs, using one of many available output mechanisms. AdPlay/UNIX plays endlessly, if only one file is given. With multiple files, it plays them in a sequence and exits after the last file. The same can also be accomplished with only one file, by using the -o op- tion. When using the disk writer, -o is implied. EXIT STATUS adplay returns 0 on successful operation. 1 is returned otherwise. OUTPUT MECHANISMS AdPlay/UNIX can play back using many different output mechanisms, which can be selected with the -O argument. The availability of a method de- pends on compile-time settings. Available methods are printed out after the help text, displayed with --help. Next is a brief description of all output mechanisms, following their abbreviations: oss -- Open Sound System (OSS) driver This output method is available on most Linux and other UNIX systems. null -- Total silence Discards anything sent to it. It can be useful for testing purposes. disk -- Disk writer Writes its output to a file in Microsoft RIFF WAVE format. esound -- EsounD output Creates a socket connection to an EsounD server and streams the audio to it. qsa -- QNX Sound Architecture (QSA) driver Uses the QNX system's standard output method. sdl -- Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL) driver Uses the SDL library for sound output. The library has a broader plat- form support than any of the other output methods. Thus, it could be useful on some exotic systems. alsa -- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) driver Uses the standard output method on newer Linux systems. ao -- libao driver Libao is a cross-platform audio library with very broad platform sup- port. Might be useful on systems, where SDL is not available, and gen- erally to do tricky things. OPTIONS The order of the option commandline parameters is not important, except for the -d option, which always has to be specified after an -O option. Output selection: -O, --output=OUTPUT Specify output mechanism. Available mechanisms depend on compi- lation settings and are printed on --help output. A reasonable default is automatically selected, based on the availability of the output mechanisms. OSS driver (oss) specific: -d --device=FILE Set sound output device file to FILE. This is /dev/dsp by de- fault. Disk writer (disk) specific: -d --device=FILE Write sound data to FILE. The data is written in Microsoft RIFF WAVE format (little-endian). You can specify a single '-' to write to stdout instead. This option has no default and must be specified when the disk writer is to be used! EsounD output (esound) specific: -d --device=URL Connect to "hostname:port" combination in URL. Example: "my- host.sound.net:1234". The default is "localhost:16001". ALSA driver (alsa) specific: -d --device=DEVICE Set sound output device to DEVICE. This is plughw:0,0 by de- fault. Playback quality: -8, --8bit Use only 8-bit samples for playback. --16bit Use only 16-bit samples for playback (default). -f, --freq=FREQ Set playback frequency to FREQ, in Hz. This is 44100Hz by de- fault. --stereo Use only stereo samples for playback. The sound stream is just doubled, no further audio processing is done. This option is pretty useless unless you have very obscure audio hardware that only accepts stereo streams. AdPlug only generates mono streams because the OPL2 only generates mono sound. --mono Use only mono samples for playback (default if AdPlug <= 2.1.) --surround Use only stereo samples for playback, but generate them from two mono OPL2 chips. One OPL2 chip is very slightly transposed to produce a pleasant harmonic/surround sound effect (default if AdPlug >= 2.2.) -b --buffer=SIZE Set sound buffer size to SIZE samples. If you notice sound skip- ping with the default setting, try a greater buffer size. Note that this is measured in samples, not bytes! This is 2048 sam- ples by default. Only the OSS, SDL, ALSA and libao output dri- vers support this option. Informative output: -i --instruments Display instrument names (if available). -r --realtime Display realtime playback information, while playing. This will display a one-line status bar, containing essential playback in- formation. -m --message Display the song message (if available). Playback: -s --subsong=N Play subsong number N, instead of the default subsong of the file. Only useful for file formats that support multiple sub- songs. -o --once Don't loop endlessly. This will exit adplay after the song ended. This is the default when multiple FILEs are given. -l --loop=N Loop N times then stop. Due to technical limitations of the ad- plug library, a "loop" is considered to be the time between the start of playback and when looping first occurs. Accordingly, playback may actually halt at an unexpected point, especially when combined with -s. This implies -o. Miscellaneous: -D, --database=FILE Additionally use database file FILE. This option may be speci- fied multiple times. Each database file is additionally merged with the others, creating one large database on the fly. -q, --quiet Be more quiet. -v, --verbose Be more verbose. -h, --help Show summary of options. -V, --version Show version of program. AUTHOR Simon Peter <dn.tlp@gmx.net> AdPlay/UNIX 1.9 December 21, 2025 ADPLAY(1)
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