ossplay(1) User Commands ossplay(1) NAME ossplay - Open Sound System playback program. SYNOPSIS ossplay [-RWhlvq] [-S secs ] [ -c channels ] [ -d devname ] [ -f? fmtname? | ? ] [ -g? gain?? ] [ -o? playtarget?? | ? ] [ -s? rate?? ] filename?? | - ... DESCRIPTION ossplay?? plays? raw? PCM?, Microsoft? RIFF? (.wav?), Sun? ULaw? (.au?), Mac? AIFF? (.aif?) and? other? types? of? audio? files?. By? default? the? application? will? try? to? determine? the? audio? file?'s? format? and? play? audio? based? on? the? stored? inforation? about? sample? format?, number? of? channels? and? sampling? rate??. OPTIONS -v? Verbose? output?. Multiple? invocations? increase? the? level? of? verbosity?. -q? Quiet? (no? information? printed?). -l? Loop? playback? indefinately?. -d?<devname?> Select? <devname?> as? the? device? (eg? -d?/dev?/dsp2?). -s?<rate??> Select? the? playback? rate?? for? raw? PCM? audio? (eg? -s48000?). -c?<channels? Select? the? number? of? channels? 1?=mono? 2?=stereo?, 4?, 6?, 8?, etc?. -f?<fmtname?> Select? the? input? format? (eg? -fU8? or? -fS16_BE?). -f?? Prints? the? list? of? supported? format? names?. -o?<playtarget??> Selects? the? play? target? name? if? the? device? supports? multi- ple? play? targets? (such? as? front?, rear?, side?). -o?? Prints? the? list? of? available? play? targets?. -g?<gain??> Amplify? all? played? samples? by? percentage? given? as? argument?. 100? (default?) means? normal? signal? level?, 200? means? double? level?. -W? Treat? all? input? as? raw? PCM? data?. -R? Disable? redirection? to? virtual? mixer? engines? and? sample? rate??/format? conversions?. Should? not? be? used? unless? ab- solutely? necessary?. -S?<secs?> Start? playing? at? <secs?> seconds? from? start? of? file?. The? argument? can? contain? a? fractional? part? (e.g.? -S1.2?) -h? Display? usage? information?. INTERRUPT Sending? a? SIGQUIT? (Ctrl?-\? in? most? terminals?) will? make? ossplay?? stop? playing? the? currently? played? file? and? skip? to? the? next? file?. NOTES The? ossplay?? executable? is? the? same? as? the? ossrecord? executable?. Behaviour? is? decided? by? the? name? used? to? invoke? the? program?. SEE ALSO ossrecord?(1?), ossmix?(1?), ossxmix?(1?) FILES /usr?/local?/bin?/ossplay?? AUTHOR 4Front? Technologies? 27 August 2026 ossplay(1)
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