playme: Play audio

In soundgen: Sound Synthesis and Acoustic Analysis

Play audio

Description

Plays one or more sounds: wav/mp3 file(s), Wave objects, or numeric vectors. Recommended players on Linux: "play" from the "SoX" library (default), "aplay" (ALSA).

Usage

playme(x, samplingRate = NULL, player = NULL, from = NULL, to = NULL)

Arguments

x	path to a folder, one or more wav or mp3 files c('file1.wav', 'file2.mp3'), Wave object, numeric vector, or a list of Wave objects or numeric vectors
samplingRate	sampling rate of x (only needed if x is a numeric vector)
player	the name of player to use, eg "aplay", "play", "vlc", etc. Defaults to options()$soundgen.player –> tuneR::getWavPlayer() –> OS-specific defaults: "play" on Linux, "afplay" on MacOS, and VLC –> FFmpeg –> PowerShell on Windows. In case of errors, try setting another default player (see examples).
from, to	play a selected time range (s)

Value

Does not return anything, only plays the audio.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Play an audio file:
data('speechEx', package = 'soundgen')
playme(speechEx, from = 1, to = 2)
playme('pathToMyAudio/audio.wav')

# Create and play a numeric vector:
f0_Hz = 440
sound = sin(2 * pi * f0_Hz * (1:16000) / 16000)
playme(sound, 16000)
playme(sound, 16000, from = .1, to = .5)  # play from 100 to 500 ms

# Set default player for the current R session
# "play" (SoX library, default on Linux)
options(soundgen.player = 'play')
# "afplay" (ALSA, default on MacOS)
options(soundgen.player = 'afplay')
# VLC path (default on Windows)
options(soundgen.player = "C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe")
# view currently set player
options()$soundgen.player

# Or specify player per call
playme(sound, player = "C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe")

## End(Not run)

soundgen documentation built on Sept. 20, 2026, 5:07 p.m.