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.TH NAME SECTION
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH NAME
play \- play any sound file to audio device
.P
rec \- record audio to any sound file format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B play
.I "[fopts] infile [effect]"
.P
.B rec
.I "[fopts] outfile [effect]"
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.B play and rec
command.
.PP
.B play
and
.B 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 soundfile. If it can't do
so, the parameters can be changed through options.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of common options are included below.
For a complete description of options and thier values, see
the
.B sox(1)
man page.
.TP
.B \-c [channels], \-\-channels=[channels]
Define the number of channels of the file.
.TP
.B \-d [device], \-\-device=[device]
Specify a different device to play the sound file to.
.TP
.B \-f [format], \-\-format=[format]
Specifies bit format of sample. One of s, u, U, A, a, or g.
.TP
.B \-r [rate], \-\-rate=[rate]
Define the samplerate of the audio data.
.TP
.B \-s [size], \-\-size=[size]
interpret size of sample. One of b, w, l, f, d, or D.
.TP
.B \-t [type], \-\-type=[type]
Specifies audio file format to use. Useful if it can not be determined
on its own.
.TP
.B \-v [volume], \-\-volume=[volume]
Change the audio volume
.TP
.B \-x , \-\-xinu
Reverse the byte order of the sample (only works with 16 and 32-bit data).
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-\-version
Show version of play/rec.
.TP
.B \-\-silent
Do not show the name of the file currently played. This is the default if
the output is not connected to a terminal (e.g. play is used in the background
such as in a script).
.TP
Description of effects are described in the sox man page.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
sox(1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Guenter Geiger <geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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