paplay

Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/paplay.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Alpine
apk add pulseaudio-utils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S libpulse
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
CentOS
yum install pulseaudio-utils
Fedora
dnf install pulseaudio-utils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Raspbian
apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/paplay paplay powered by Commando

pulseaudio-utils

Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture. These tools provide command line access to various features of the PulseAudio sound server. Included tools are: paplay - Playback a WAV file via a PulseAudio sink. pacat - Cat raw audio data to a PulseAudio sink. parec - Cat raw audio data from a PulseAudio source. pacmd - Connect to PulseAudio's built-in command line control interface. pactl - Send a control command to a PulseAudio server. padsp - /dev/dsp wrapper to transparently support OSS applications. pax11publish - Store/retrieve PulseAudio default server/sink/source settings in the X11 root window.

libpulse

A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)