Short: Multi-Format Sampled Sound Player, v1.21

TITLE
	OmniPlay - A multi-format sound player for AmigaDOS

VERSION
	1.21, 29 Oct 1992

DESCRIPTION
	OmniPlay plays samples sounds from a variety of sound file
	formats, including IFF-8svx, aiff, WAV, VOC, .au, .snd,
	and 8-bit raw (signed, unsigned, u-law).  In addition,
	PowerPacked sounds can be played if you have v34+ of
	powerpacker.library installed.

	OmniPlay determines the type of sound it's dealing with
	automagically,  so the minimum command is "oplay somesound".
	This works on *any* file, although raw files might sound
	better if you specify a rate.

	Options control rate, volume, output audio channel, wait-time
	between sounds, process priority, printing of sound properties
	(such as IFF NAME, AUTH, etc.), and more.  Options are
	sequenced, not pre-scanned, so two files can have different
	option sets.

REQUIREMENTS
	A sampled sound file.  If you wish to PowerPack sounds, you
	should have powerpacker.library (not included) in your libs:
	directory.

CHANGES
	(since v1.10)
	- Some routines in OmniPlay used Kickstart 2.0+ system calls.
	  This made playback of raw and .voc files impossible on an
	  Amiga running less than v2.0 or the OS.  This has been
	  fixed, and, for the time being, OmniPlay should be fully
	  functional on an 1.3 Amiga.
	- The OMNIPLAY environment variable now allows the user to set
	  personal defaults.
	- "-O" option allows the environment to specify output to a
	  file or window in the same way a shell redirection does.
	- Now reads PowerPacked files correctly (older versions were
	  limited to no more than one consecutive PP sound file)
	- "-a" option did not behave the way the documentation said it
	  did.  Now it does.
	- new "-i" option will display more info on a sound file than
	  was previously shown.
	- new "-W" option writes the sound you hear (that is, after
	  any rate or volume changes, format conversion, or
	  amplification) into an IFF-8SVX file.


AUTHOR
	David Champion, dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu

AVAILABILITY
        wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4):
                /systems/amiga/incoming/audio/oplay121.lha
                /systems/amiga/audio/sampleplayers/oplay121.lha

        amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) and other Aminet sites:
		new/oplay121.lha
		music/oplay121.lha

	(For amiga.physik.unizh.ch, the aminet directory is
	 /amiga; for others, try /aminet if you don't know)

DISTRIBUTABILITY
	The program "oplay" is public domain.  The source code is
	free.  See documentation for legal details.