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Enable verbose operation. Dumps the current playback time to STDERR during playback.

Choose the server to connect to.

Specify the symbolic name of the sink to play this file on.

Specify the client name paplay shall pass to the server when connecting.

Specify the stream name paplay shall pass to the server when creating the stream.

Specify the initial playback volume to use. Choose a value between 0 (silent) and 65536 (100% volume).

Explicitly choose a channel map when playing back this stream. The argument should be a comma separated list of channel names: front-left, front-right, mono, front-center, rear-left, rear-right, rear-center, lfe, front-left-of-center, front-right-of-center, side-left, side-right, top-center, top-front-center, top-front-left, top-front-right, top-rear-left, top-rear-right, top-rear-center, or any of the 32 auxiliary channel names aux0 to aux31.