Command line program for playing sections of audio specified in milliseconds

Question

Would someone kindly recommend a command line utility that can play any section of an audio file specified in milliseconds e.g.

player -start-time=0.1234 end-tim         


        

Answer 1

sox

You can use sox play with the trim effect:

play audio.wav trim START =END

Which in your case would become:

play audio.wav trim 0.1234 =5.6789

Note that the end can also be specified as a length:

play audio.wav trim 0.1234 2

Which starts playing at 0.1234 and plays 2 seconds of the file.

Also note that the offsets can be specified as number of samples by appending an s to the number.

mplayer

mplayer also supports this:

mplayer -ss START -endpos END audio.wav

ffplay from ffmpeg

ffplay uses similar input parameters but doesn't support absolute end times, so some minor arithmetic is needed:

ffplay -ss START -t $(( END - START )) audio.wav