Audio Player

A very simple audio player. A slight abstraction over playing audio using the rust rodio library.

Usage: audio-player [--volume <volume>] [--speed <speed>] [--verbose <verbose>] input

Play an audio file and exit

Options:
  --volume          volume of the audio, 0.0 to 1.0. After 1.0 multiplies the
                    audio.
  --speed           speed of the audio default: 1.0
  --verbose         verbose default: false
  --help            display usage information

Supports

• MP3
• WAV
• Vorbis
• FLAC

Soon:

• MP4
• ACC

Install

Cargo

cargo install --git https://github.com/rockerBOO/audio-player.git audio-player
audio-player --help

Manual

cargo build --release
./target/release/audio-player --help

Audio conversion

We'll use some ffmpeg or avconv to do some conversion to make good samples for playing with commands.

Take a video file and extract only the first audio channel. Also works to convert audio files into ogg/vorbis.

ffmpeg -i lsd.ogg -acodec libvorbis -c copy -map 0:a -vn -sn output.ogg

-t used for duration, can apply for the input (before the -i) and to the output (after the -i).

ffmpeg -t 5 -i output.ogg -t 5 output-5seconds.ogg

5 seconds into the file, for 5 seconds on the output, so 00:05:00 to 00:10:00

-to gives a position, so here we can say the position in the audio file.

ffmpeg -to 00:05:00 -i output.ogg -to 00:10:00 output-5seconds.ogg

And a quick one-liner to have it play right away.

ffmpeg -to 00:05:00 -i output.ogg -to 00:10:00 output-5seconds.ogg && audio-player output-5seconds.ogg

Samples

Download an audio file from some source

yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format vorbis URL

Motivation

A simple player that plays the audio file and quits. Needs to support major codecs.

Development

It's a rust project, you know what to do...

cargo run -- --help

Thanks

• rodio contributors
• cpal contributors
• argh contributors