gsound - Man Page

Tool for doing sound I/O using the sound gensio

Synopsis

gsound [-r|--rate num] [-n|--nbufs num] [-c|--channels num] [-s|--bufsize num] [-t|--type num] [-f|--format str] [-p|--play] [-L|--list-devs] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] <device> [<file>]

Description

The gsound program allows you to record/play sound to/from the given sound device. Sound data goes to/from file, or stdio if the file isn't given.

Options

-r|--rate num

The sample rate, defaults to 44100.

-n|--nbufs num

The number of buffers, defaults to 4.

-c|--channels num

The number of channels, defaults to 1.

-s|--bufsize num

The number of buffer size, defaults to 2048.

-t|--type num

The interface type, either alsa (Linux), win (Windows), portaudio (generally MacOS) or file.  Default to alsa, win, or portaudio depending on the platform.

-f|--format str

The I/O format.  Default to float.  May be one of double, float, int32, int24, int16, or int8

-p|--play

Playback data from stdin.  The default is to record data to stdout.

-L|--list-devs

List available devices and exit.

-d|--debug

Enable debug.  Specify more than once to increase the debug level

-h|--help

Help

See Also

gensio(5)

Known Problems

None.

Author

Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

Info

15 Aug 2022