gsound-play(1)

gsound-play1

A small library for playing system sounds

Usage

gsound-play [options]

Overview

gsound-play is a small program for playing sounds.

Options

-h, --help

Show help options.

-i, --id=STRING

Event sound identifier.

-f, --file=PATH

Play file.

-d, --description=STRING

Event sound description.

-c, --cache-control=STRING

Cache control (permanent, volatile, never).

-l, --loop=INTEGER

Loop many times (default: 1).

-v, --volume=STRING

A floating point dB value for the sample volume (ex: 0.0).

-b, --backend=STRING

libcanberra backend to use.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–Arch

Bugs

All bugs in the application may be reported at the GNOME Gitlab at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsound/-/issues

From gsound 1.0.3-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.