afplay-win

afplay-win

Tiny utility that mimics 'afplay' in windows

For a background on this please read this post

Installation

Install this tool using pip:

pip install afplay-win

Usage

For help, run:

afplay --help

You can also use:

python -m afplay --help

Seek Functionality

You can start playback from a specific time position using the --seek or -t option:

# Play from 30 seconds into the file
afplay song.mp3 --seek 30
afplay song.mp3 -t 30

# Play from 1 minute 30 seconds into the file
afplay song.mp3 --seek 1:30
afplay song.mp3 -t 1:30

# Play from 1 hour 10 minutes 30 seconds into the file
afplay song.mp3 --seek 1:10:30
afplay song.mp3 -t 1:10:30

Supported time formats:

• SS: seconds (e.g., 30)
• MM:SS: minutes:seconds (e.g., 1:30)
• HH:MM:SS: hours:minutes:seconds (e.g., 1:10:30)

Development

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd afplay-win
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

python -m pytest

Inspiration

This implementation is inspired from playsound3