Play audio recording

Grabs your audio folder, lets you pick a file, and plays the sound at 35% volume.

Actions Used

Get Contents of Folder
This action gets the files inside of the specified folder.

Recursive
If this option is enabled, this action will get all the files inside of a folder, including its subfolders.
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.

Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.

Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
Set Volume
Sets the system volume. If you set the volume using a variable, use a number between 0 and 1 (for example, pass 0.5 for half volume).
Play Sound
Plays the audio file passed as input, or a default notification sound if no audio file was passed.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Play%20audio%20recording
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Play%20audio%20recording
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Play audio recording” end tell

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