---
name: "playsound_simple"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libsdl-sound1.2"
version: "1.0.3-3+b1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/playsound_simple"
---

# playsound\_simple(1)

Plays an audio file using SDL\_sound

## NAME

playsound\_simple - Plays an audio file using SDL\_sound

## SYNOPSIS

**playsound\_simple** *audiofile* \[audiofile...\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **playsound\_simple** command.

**playsound\_simple** plays an *audio file* using SDL\_sound. If several  *audiofiles* are specified, they will be played the one after the other.

**playsound\_simple** supports various audio file formats : MPEG audio, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, VOC, AIFF, MIDI, AU and a few others.

## SEE ALSO

[**playsound**(1)](/playsound/1.md)

## AUTHORS

Copyright © 2001 Ryan C. Gordon. \<icculus@icculus.org\>

This manual page was written by Francois Wendling \<frwendling@free.fr\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).