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Play
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NAME
play - play sounds to DAC or A/D64X at any sampling rate.
DESCRIPTION
play plays soundfiles recorded at any sampling rate. If the
input soundfile's sampling rate is neither 44.1kHz, nor
48kHz, play performs a real-time sampling rate conversion
and sends its output either to the NeXT D/A converters or to
Singular Solutions' A/D64X converters for SPDIFF digital
transfer to a DAT machine. When the sound is output to the
A/D64X converters, you need to specify the SPDIFF sampling
rate. play can play soundfiles (with a header) or raw
binary files containing short ints, in which case you just
need to specify the sound's sampling rate ( play can recog-
nize soundfiles from simple binary files). When playing
binary files, play assumes the sound is mono, unless you
specify it is stereo. play can play mono, stereo sound-
files, play only one of the two channels, or add the two
channels and play in mono (for stereo soundfile). play can
also swap the input sound's bytes, for compatibility with
DEC machines, PCs etc. By using the shell command `setenv
DEFAULT_SR 8000', you can select the default sampling rate
(used only when the sound has no header, and no sampling
rate is specified).
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.