ogg123 - plays Ogg Vorbis files
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ogg123 reads Ogg Vorbis audio files and decodes them to the devices specified on the command line. By default, ogg123 writes to the standard sound device, but output can be sent to any number of devices. Files can be read from the file system, or URLs can be streamed via HTTP. If a directory is given, all of the files in it or its subdirectories will be played.
ogg123 supports a variety of audio output devices through libao. Only those devices supported by the target platform will be available. The -f option may only be used with devices that write to files.
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The ogg123 command line is fairly flexible, perhaps confusingly so. Here are some sample command lines and an explanation of what they do.
Play all of the files in the directory /music and its subdirectories.
ogg123 /music
Use the ESD driver
ogg123 -d esd test.ogg
You can abort ogg123 at any time by pressing Ctrl-C. If you are playing multiple files, this will stop the current file and begin playing the next one. If you want to abort playing immediately instead of skipping to the next file, press Ctrl-C within the first second of the playback of a new file.
Note that the result of pressing Ctrl-C might not be audible immediately, due to audio data buffering in the audio device. This delay is system dependent, but it is usually not more than one or two seconds.
Piped WAV files may cause strange behavior in other programs. This is because WAV files store the data length in the header. However, the output driver does not know the length when it writes the header, and there is no value that means "length unknown". Use the raw or au output driver if you need to use ogg123 in a pipe.
libao.conf(5)?
Program Authors: ;: Kenneth Arnold <kcarnold@yahoo.com> Stan Seibert <indigo@aztec.asu.edu>
Manpage Author: ;: Stan Seibert <indigo@aztec.asu.edu>
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