[linux-audio-dev] Vsound-like tools for ALSA?

Erik de Castro Lopo erikd-lad at mega-nerd.com
Sun Feb 15 02:21:42 UTC 2004


On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:14:04 -0500
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> >SoX
> >The Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It can convert audio 
> >files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and 
> >filters during the conversion.
> 
> as much as i love sox, its too bad that it can't read WAV files in
> IEEE float format let alone Broadcast WAVE. if it used libsndfile, i
> believe it could ...

In the examples/ directory of the libsndfile source tarball there's a 
program called sndfile-convert which does handle IEE float formats. 
Unfortunately, it doesn't handle raw files yet, but all thats required 
to do that is the addition of some command line parameter parsing.

Erik
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