.TH NAME SECTION .\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1).SH NAMEplay \- play any sound file .SH SYNOPSIS.B play.I "[fopts] infile [effect]".SH "DESCRIPTION"This manual page documents briefly the.BR play command..PP.B playis a program that allows you to play different types of sound files. It is a frontend to the more general sox package. Normally the play command will detect the type and other parameters of the soundfile. If it can't do so, the parametes can be changed through options..SH OPTIONSA summary of common options are included below.For a complete description for options and supported formats, see the .B sox(1) man page..TP.B \-h Show summary of options..TP.B \-r rateDefine the samplerate of the playback..TP.B \-v volumeChange the playback Volume..TP.B \-c channelsDefine the number of channels of the file..TPOther options and a description of effects are described in the sox man page..SH "SEE ALSO" sox(1).SH AUTHORThis manual page was written by Guenter Geiger <geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>,for the Debian GNU/Linux system.