Linux Sound Playing HOWTO

Yoo C. Chung, wacko@laplace.snu.ac.kr

v1.5b, 2 1998
Linux formats .
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Table of Contents
1.
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5

Copyright

Feedback

2. Format
2.1 MIDI
2.1.1 adagio
2.1.2 TiMidity
2.1.3 playmidi
2.2 Modules
2.2.1 tracker
2.2.2 gmod
2.2.3 MikMod
2.2.4 xmp
2.2.5 s3mod
2.2.6 mod
2.2.7 nspmod
2.2.8 yampmod
2.3 MPEG audio streams
2.3.1 mpg123
2.3.2 maplay 1.2
2.3.3 maplay 1.3b
2.3.4 maplay3
2.3.5 splay
2.3.6 Sajber Jukebox
2.3.7 amp
2.3.8 XAudio
2.3.9 Layer 3 Shareware Encoder/Decoder
2.4 WAV
2.4.1 wavplay
2.5
2.5.1 sox
2.5.2 bplay
2.5.3 SIDPLAY
2.5.4 RealAudio Player
2.5.5 cat
3.
3.1 volume
3.2 Sound Studio
3.3 Tickle Music

4.

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1.
Sound Playing HOWTO.
format
.
.
,
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Linux system
. Linux Sound HOWTO Jeff
Tranter Linux
hardware .
.
,
,
, hardware
Sound HOWTO.
1.1.
(
),
copyright . ,
,
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.

1.2. Copyright
,
GNU General Public License.

1.3.

Linux Documentation Project <http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/>.

<http://laplace.snu.ac.kr/~wacko/howto/>.
( )
<http://laplace.snu.ac.kr/~wacko/howto/Sound-PlayingHOWTO.ks>.

<http://jf.gee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/JF/JF-ftp/euc/Sound-Playing-HOWTO.euc>.

1.4. Feedback
, , ,
HOWTO, email :
voulariba@rocketmail.com :
epapakostas@ametro.gr : ep@rocketmail.com
,
( ),
. , ,
. ' ,
, , .
, .

1.5.
HOWTO. ,
Hannu Savolainen Linus Torvalds
.
Raymond Nijssen
(raymond@es.ele.tue.nl), Jeroen Rutten (jeroen@es.ele.tue.nl), Antonio
Perez (aperez@arrakis.es), Ian Jackson (ijackson@gnu.org),
Peter Amstutz (amstpi@freenet.tlh.fl.us)
.

2. Format
formats (WAV, MIDI, MPEG etc.). ,
formats
.

2.1. MIDI
MIDI Musical Instrument Device Interface.
MIDI .mid.
(sequencing information), ,
, , , . hardware
( ),
, .

2.1.1. adagio
mp ( command-line player
MIDI) xmp ( player MIDI Xview,
module player xmp).
SlingShot extensions xmp.
Adagio scores.

 GUS, o mp MOD (
``Modules'' modules).
bug ( 0.5 hardware)
. ,
MIDI,
.
mp,
`' .
.
copyright (
),
. (
,
,
.)
CMU MIDI Toolkit Linux (
)
Greg Lee (lee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu).
anonymous FTP tsx-11.mit.edu at
/pub/linux/packages/sound/adagio05.tar.gz.
a.out format (linked ),
xmp - X11R6
(XFree86 3.1.1, libc 4.7.2). mp
a.out.
hacking . ,
hacking.
-lfl switch SHROBJ XMPOBJ
Makefile. link flex,
linked default.
. XView
SlingShot extensions xmp.

2.1.2. TiMidity
experimental
( , mp
Sound Blaster 16,
GUS). ,
CPU. MIDI MIDI
WAV WAV (
MIDI WAV , ).
CPU.
interface ncurses, SLang, Tcl/Tk
Motif.
patch Gravis Ultrasound
. FAQ TiMidity
.
Tuukka Toivonen (tt@cgs.fi).
TiMidity TiMidity home

page <http://www.cgs.fi/~tt/timidity/>.
link GUS patches.

2.1.3. playmidi
MIDI player FM, GUS,
external MIDI.
MIDI players.
Creative Music, Microsoft RIFF, MIDI
Ultima 7.
X interface SVGA interface.

(
xplaymidi splaymidi).

$ splaymidi foo.mid; stty sane

SVGA interface,
tty mode . SVGA interface
.
Nathan Laredo (laredo@gnu.org
laredo@ix.netcom.com).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/playmidi-2.3.tar.gz.

2.2. Modules
Modules ( )
,
sequencing, player ()
track pitch, ,
vibrato .
MIDI
(
).
, module.

MIDI.
format ( `' ProTracker,
modules ). Amiga.
format extension .mod.

extensions format .

2.2.1. tracker
(
) modules Soundtracker Protracker.
16 bit stereo,
. CPU
-mono .
(giftware) ( ).
Marc Espie (Marc.Espie@ens.fr).

Makefile Linux anonymous FTP
sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/tracker-4.3-linux.tar.gz.

2.2.2. gmod
music module player Gravis Ultrasound.
4/6/8 MOD, 8 669, MultiTracker (MTM), UltraTracker
(ULT), FastTracker (XM), ScreamTracker III (S3M)
formats.
driver 3.0 . GUS.

.
X interface. QT toolkit (
0.99 ). QT toolkit homepage
<http://www.troll.no/> QT.
. Hannu
Savolainen, Andrew J. Robinson
(robinson@cnj.digex.net).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/gmod-3.1.tar.gz.

2.2.3. MikMod
module player XM, ULT, STM, S3M, MTM, MOD
UNI formats. ( UNI format format
MikMod.) module.
16 bit stereo .
-m ( mono)
CPU.
Unix interface ncurses
Tcl/Tk. ,
.

 Jean-Paul Mikkers (mikmak@via.nl).

Stine (dracoirs@epix.net). shareware
(registered)
.
(-
).
MikMod home page
<http://www.aics.net/~amstutz/mikmod.html>.

2.2.4. xmp
module player ( Adagio xmp)
MOD, S3M, MTM, PTR, STM, 669, XM modules
( formats,
). (GUS
SoundBlaster 32AWE),
CPU.
X frontend xmp .
Claudio Matsuoka (claudio@lobo.inf.ufpr.br)
H. Carraro Jr.
xmp home page
<http://www.merdre.net/~claudio/xmp/>.

2.2.5. s3mod
4/6/8 track MOD modules Scream Tracker 3 modules.
8 bit
22000 Hz default. -s
stereo, -b 16 bit,
-f . ,
tracker ( ),
tracker s3mod
MOD ( ).
CPU tracker.
Daniel Marks David Jeske
(jeske@uiuc.edu), but
( ).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/s3mod-v1.09.tar.gz.

2.2.6. mod
beta MODs (15/31-instrument, 32 ),
MTMs, ULTs S3Ms Gravis Ultrasound.
packed modules gzip, lharc, unzip,
unarj . Powerpacked modules
modules composers Amiga( "PACK"
).

 3.0 .
2.90-2 . text
interface ncurses. X interface,
Tcl/Tk.
Mikael Nordqvist (mech@df.lth.se d91mn@efd.lth.se).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/mod-v0.81.tgz.

2.2.7. nspmod
alpha module player MTM, S3M, MOD
modules. module player
DSP ( Creative Labs DSP).
CPU tracker.
modules
(loop) .
-l. 8 bit(
0.1).
Toru Egashira (toru@jms.jeton.or.jp).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/nspmod-0.1.tar.gz.

2.2.8. yampmod
alpha 4 modules
CPU resources.
. ,
22 kHz. ,
, alpha
.
David Groves (djg@djghome.demon.co.uk).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/yampmod-0.1.tar.gz.

2.3. MPEG audio streams

MPEG video
. MPEG
video,
.
, I, II, III. players

. (.. players III
II). MPG I
.mpg (

 MPEG video player, stream

), II .mp2,
III .mp3. .
MPEG II 2 25 megabytes
PCM .

2.3.1. mpg123
beta MPEG audio stream player,
layers I, II, III.
. streams
HTTP (.. MPEG stream
World Wide Web).
Michael Hipp
(Michael.Hipp@student.uni-tuebingen.de).
, .
( CD-ROM images
FTP servers) .
Oliver Fromme's mpg123
page <http://www.heim3.tu-clausthal.de/~olli/mpg123/>.

2.3.2. maplay 1.2

MPEG stream player layer I
layer II streams, layer III streams.
bit Linux.
, 55%
CPU 60MHz Pentium. 66MHz
486 CPU .
, stream
( -l or -r option),
.
,
compile. ,
configuration.sh.

#! /bin/sh

Tobias Bading (bading@cs.tu-berlin.de).

maplay 1.2 anonymous FTP ftp.cs.tuberlin.de /pub/multimedia/maplay1.2/maplay1_2.tar.

2.3.3. maplay 1.3b

(.
) maplay 1.2,
CPU. u-law
SPARC.
u-law output default,
.
Orlando Andico
(orly@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph). anonymous FTP
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/maplay-1.3bLinux.tar.gz.

2.3.4. maplay3
maplay 1.2.
MPEG Layer 3 streams . bugs
playback ( ).
.
by Timo Jantunen (timo.jantunen@hut.fi
jeti@cc.hut.fi). ,
. ,
,
maplay GNU General Public License,

.
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/maplay3.tar.gz.

2.3.5. splay
beta player maplay 1.2
(, maplay 1.2+,
maplay 1.2 MS Windows).
MPEG Layer 3 streams .
WAV. streams
HTTP .
splay
( LGPL),
.
threading ( pthread
) inline assembly.
splay command line interface X
interface ( QT).
compile (.. segmentation fault),
threading.
Jung Woo-jae (jwj95@eve.kaist.ac.kr).
splay's home page

<http://adam.kaist.ac.kr/~jwj95/>.

2.3.6. Sajber Jukebox

MPEG player user
interface. splay,
MPEG , III. MPEG
streams , stream
HTTP. ..
QT toolkit ( 1.2 ).
LinuxThreads (
0.5).
Joel Lindholm (wizball@kewl.campus.luth.se).
anonymous FTP
kewl.campus.luth.se /pub/jukebox.

2.3.7. amp
beta MPEG player MPEG Layer 3
streams . ,
PCM WAV.
CPU ( 60% 133MHz Pentium).
Tomislav Uzelac (tuzelac@rasip.fer.hr).
, ,
( CD-ROMs
, ).
anonymous FTP ftp.rasip.fer.hr
/pub/mpeg/amp-0.7.3.tgz.

2.3.8. XAudio
alpha
MPEG ,
front-ends. MPEG
layers I, II, III.
bitstreams. interface - .
Motif (Lesstif) front-end
Linux.
Gilles Boccon-Gibod, Alain Jobart . frontends .
(licensed)
( ).
front-ends XAudio
home page <http://www.mpeg.org/xaudio/>.

2.3.9. Layer 3 Shareware Encoder/Decoder

MPEG Layer 3 streams
WAV, AIFF, SND, AIFC, PCM .
The Linux .
format.
, ,
sox,
(words PCM
( Intel ). sox
-x .
players
, .
/ ( 100Mhz Pentium),
MPEG Layer 3 streams
format,
(
sox 44.1 kHz).

$ l3dec foo.mp3 -sto | play -t raw -x -u -w -c 2 -r 44100 -

-r stream ,
-c
( ).
, script- (shell
script) (alias).
shareware
Fraunhofer-IIS. Linux x86
anonymous FTP ftp.fhg.de
/pub/layer3. (demo version)
streams layer III.

2.4. WAV
(man page) sox:
IFF,
. format Windows
3.1. , Windows 3.1
/
format .
.wav.
``sox'' ``bplay'' players WAV
.

2.4.1. wavplay
WAV format.
(locking)
.
.
interface -, Motif interface,
Lesstif.
Andre Fuechsel (af1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de),

Warren W. Gay (bx249@freenet.toronto.on.ca wwg@ica.net).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/wavplay-1.0.tar.gz.

2.5.
formats
(.. formats player),
players format.

2.5.1. sox
,
format . ,
sox, play, ( play
Sound HOWTO probably ). (raw no header) ,
IRCAM, Sound Blaster .voc, SPARC .au ( header), Mac HCOM, PC/DOS
.sou, Sndtool, Sounder, NeXT .snd, Windows 3.1 RIFF/WAV, Turtle
Beach .smp, CD-R, Apple/SGI AIFF 8SVX formats
1.3.6x,

. , 179 sbdsp.c
from

if (abuf_size < 4096 || abuf_size > 65536) {

if (abuf_size < 1 || abuf_size > 65536) {

. ,
.
, ,
, .
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/convert/Lsox-linux.tar.gz.
Chris Bagwell (cbagwell@sprynet.com)
( gamma sox (
) fix)
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/convert/sox-11gamma-cb3.tar.gz.

2.5.2. bplay
beta , WAV,
VOC files. .

, .

setuid root. ,
Debian Ian Jackson
(ijackson@gnu.org, ,
setuid bit.
David Monro (davidm@gh.cs.usyd.edu.au).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/bplay-0.96.tar.gz.

2.5.3. SIDPLAY
Sound Interface Device chip (MOS
6581, SID) Micro Processor Unit (MOS 6510)
Commodore 64. '
C64 . ,
fragments
C64.
interface -.
Tk QT interfaces
.
Michael Schwendt (sidplay@geocities.com).
SIDPLAY's home page

<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/>.

2.5.4. RealAudio Player

,
(proprietary) format, Internet
.
,
web browser ( Mosaic Netscape).
(
).
Progressive Networks, Inc. ,
.
.
RealAudio home
page <http://www.realaudio.com/>.
2.5.5. cat
,
cat, .

$ cat sample.voc > /dev/dsp

$ cat sample.wav > /dev/dsp
$ cat sample.au > /dev/audio

cat .au /dev/audio ,

byte ( ) ., cat
PCM ( .wav .voc) /dev/dsp
.
cat.
, ,
, PCM ,
, ,
( ).

3.
.
,
.
3.1. volume
interface (
';). interface Tcl/Tk interface
,

.au. Tcl/Tk CD .
Freeware Sam Lantinga
(slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/soundcard/volume-2.1.tar.gz.

3.2. Sound Studio

Tcl/Tk ,
sox. sox
.
Paul Sharpe N. J. Bailey
(N.J.Bailey@leeds.ac.uk).
, -.
Sound Studio's home page <http://www.eleceng.leeds.ac.uk/staff/een6njb/Software/Studio/screens.html>.
3.3. Tickle Music
beta Tcl/Tk browser
format ,
. gmod
MOD mp MIDI
( ).
Shannon Hendrix
(shendrix@pcs.cnu.edu shendrix@escape.widomaker.com).
anonymous FTP sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/tmusic-1.0.tar.gz.

4.
1.
.
2. Linux Sound HOWTO. Linux Documentation
Project <http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/>.
3. Linux MIDI and Sound Pages <http://www.digiserve.com/ar/linux-snd/>
4. MPEG Audio Layer 3 FAQ
<http://www.iis.fhg.de/departs/amm/layer3/sw/>
5. Programmer's Guide to OSS <http://www.4front-tech.com/pguide/>
6. SoX home page <http://www.spies.com/Sox/>