[linux-audio-dev] API for playing wav file samples

[Vandana]

	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 <vandana at gdit.iiit.net> 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
>