afplay

macos

Command-line audio player.

Examples (4)

Play a sound file (waits until playback ends)

afplay path/to/file

Play a sound file at 2x speed (playback rate)

afplay --rate 2 path/to/file

Play a sound file at half speed

afplay --rate 0.5 path/to/file

Play the first `n` seconds of a sound file

afplay --time n path/to/file

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