macOS: How to play a sound from the macOS command line

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Use the afplay built-in command:

afplay file.mp3

Here are some more options from tldr.sh

afplay

  Command-line audio player.
  More information: https://ss64.com/osx/afplay.html.

  - Play a sound file (waits until playback ends):
    afplay path/to/file

  - Play a sound file at 2x speed (playback rate):
    afplay --rate 2 path/to/file

  - Play a sound file at half speed:
    afplay --rate 0.5 path/to/file

  - Play the first N seconds of a sound file:
    afplay --time seconds path/to/file

You can also make your Mac talk using the say command

say "test"

say -v Fred "Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you?"

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: How to use the macOS terminal
2: Productivity gains of using a Mac and an iOS device
3: A way to set up automations in macOS easily
4: How to hide a file or folder in macOS Finder
5: How to install a local SSL certificate in macOS
6: Reverting a file to a previous version, on a Mac
7: Take screenshots as JPG on macOS
8: Convert an image or resize it using macOS Shortcuts
9: Concatenating videos on macOS
10: Fix files creation date in macOS
11: Freeing space on a Mac
12: How to add an “Open in Terminal” icon in macOS Finder
13: How to add an “Open in VS Code” icon in macOS Finder
14: How to find the bundle ID of a Mac app
15: How to Fix the "Your CLT does not support macOS 11" error in macOS
16: ▶︎ How to play a sound from the macOS command line
17: How to remove the shadow from window screenshots in macOS
18: Removing all Homebrew stuff
19: Run a Node.js script from your macOS menu bar