System Architecture: All/General
RedHat Release: All/General
FAQ Category: Sound and Music
Modification Date: Oct 20, 1998
What are some good music and sound apps? Where can I find more info?
For playing CD-ROMS: xplaycd -- X windows interface, quite nice application cdp -- command line player cdtool -- command line player, includes ability to be used as a daemon, program to shuffle play, and ability to query the cddb database to get track/program listings for a disc. MANY MORE (Java, X-based, workman, workbone, etc.) Most of these are available in RPM format, if not, you may have to find the tarball and make them.... Some are provided with RedHat 5.x on the CD-ROM, or are in the contrib directory at ftp.redhat.com. For converting sound files: SOX -- this allows you to convert to/from MANY sound formats For playing midi files: playmidi -- ability to play midi files and with playmidi-X11, provides a nice X interface For playing sound clips: playcdda -- part of xcdroast -- plays CD-ROM redbook (audio) files vplay -- old wave file player maplay -- play MPEG audio files rvplayer -- play .RA and .RAM Real-Audio files play -- /usr/bin/play, comes with SOX For editing/recording sound vrec -- link to vplay multitrack -- multitrack audio player, recorder, spectrum analyzer, guitar tuner, and real cool program xwave -- clone of Win 3.1 WAVE player (not too stable) Mixer: mixer -- command line mixer xmixer -- X-based mixer Misc: dtmfdial -- generated DTMF tones multimon -- decode DTMF tones, FSK, etc. tune -- tuner program rsynth -- text to speech converter
Sound-HOWTO Sound-Playing-HOWTO http://www.opensound.com ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound