afplay

Audio File Play plays an audio file to the default audio output.

Documentation

• afplay -h
• man 1 'afplay' [EN]

Syntax

afplay [PARAMETER ...] FILE

Parameters

-t TIME, --time TIME

Play for TIME seconds.

-v VOLUME, --volume VOLUME

Set the VOLUME for playback of the file.

Example

Set the speaker's volume & play music

osascript <<-EOS
	set volume without output muted
	set volume output volume 100
EOS

afplay --volume 1 "${HOME}/Music/Shakra/Infected/03 The One.m4a"

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