.TH JACK.PLAY "1" 0.3 "November 2005"
.SH NAME
jack.play \- JACK Sound File Player
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR jack.play
.RI [ options ]
.I sound-file...
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-b
Set the disk buffer size in frames (default=4096).  This value must be
a power of two.  If the JACK period size at any time exceeds this
value the player will halt.
.TP
.B \-i
Set the initial disk seek in frames (default=0).
.TP
.B \-m
Set the minimal disk transfer size in frames (default=32). This is an
optimization switch.
.TP
.B \-t
Run in JACK transport aware mode.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B jack.play
is a light-weight 
.B JACK
sound file player. It creates as many output ports as there are
channels in the input file.  It implements no connection logic, use
.BR jack.plumbing (1)
instead.
.PP
.B jack.play 
will read files in any format supported by
.BR libsndfile .
.SH AUTHOR
Rohan Drape <http://www.slavepianos.org/rd/>.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR jackd "(1), " libsndfile "(3) <http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/>"