[LAD] Any introductory material for sound programming?

Having searched the net for hours, I still cannot find any tutorials or intro-material for someone new to sound programming in Linux. Can anyone tip me of such a place? Things that would be valuable for a newbie: - Introduction to various ways of storing audio; float vs integer representation, bit depth issues, etc. - Introduction to using standard libraries such as libsndfile and libsamplerate. - How to programatically convert 24 bit sound files to 16 bit files The *only* audio programming introductions I could find was about ALSA and OSS. Trying to directly use the APIs is very frustrating when one doesn't have a high-level understanding of what goes on ... -- Carl-Erik Kopseng