I want to play sound samples (sorry for using 'wav', I just want
to play raw sound samples) that are resident in memory. I want to play
the samples (not read or write files). Which is the most convenient and
easy to use library for this purpose?
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:30:24 +0530 (IST)
> Vandana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am building a sound editor and need an API for playing 'wav'
> > file samples. I tried the SOX API but the quality is very bad. Is there
> > some other API, I can try.
>
> There are a number of APIs.
>
> For reading audio files (WAV and others), the most commonly used one around
> here is libsndfile:
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/
>
> as well as audiofile and one or two others.
>
> For playing files there is OSS (easy but will be dropped for the 2.6 Linux
> kernel), ALSA (the future of audio on Linux), PortAudio (one API which is
> portable across many platforms), Jack (client/server architecture for
> allowing apps to communicate with one another) and probably others. Search
> for them on http://www.google.com/linux/ .
>
> The libsndfile source code includes an example sound file player which
> uses OSS for Linux, but also works on Solaris, Win32 and MacOSX.
>
> Erik
>
