PARD: Players
Cdparanoia is a utility for reading tracks from audio CDs as data. It then
either saves the track in a file or sends the data to standard output in
WAV, AIFC or raw (MSB or LSB first) format. In addition to basic reading,
cdparanoia enforces strict alignment checking and data verification, totally
eliminating jitter and spurious samples common to most CDROM drives
(cdparanoia will not only eliminate intersector/interread jitter, but also
handle drives that suffer from loss of streaming errors during atomic read
operations). Cdparanoia also handles scratch detection and repair of damaged
audio discs (NOTE: This prelease does not yet have anti-scratch features
enabled).
Other cdparanoia features of cdda2wav include extra-robust error handling,
complete autosensing of hardware configuration (no compile time
configuration), and all interface and paranoia functions available in
library form (use Paranoia III in your own applications!).
The purpose of this prerelease is to test cdparanoia on hardware unavailable
to me personally; although the release is labelled 'alpha', the package is
likely very stable on most ATAPI and SCSI CDROM drives. I'm especially
looking for folks to test this package on older proprietary CDROM interfaces
(ie, the Creative Labs /dev/sbpcd interface, etc), and on cutting edge
kernel versions.
eMusic is my attempt to learn how to program in Linux. It also just happens
to play some sound files, so that's a nice added bonus, eh? The 'e' stands
for 'enlightenment,' as I've created this with the Enlightenment Window
Manager in mind. What's that mean? Well, eMusic is configurable. You want
funky buttons where no man has put buttons before? Go for it, just edit the
config file.
eMusic does:
- Plays MP3, MOD (and relatives), and CD files..
- Eats CPU cycles with
funky eye candy =)
- Uses your wasted screen space with a great big DEFAULT
theme.
This player has a smart and intuitive user-interface that allows a user to
split up a playlist into sections. An interesting use of this feature is
that you can put about 10 of your audio CD's in MP3-format on one CD-ROM and
have each section in the playlist represent an album. Then, you can have the
player play the songs in every imaginable order you want.
rplay is a flexible network audio system that allows sounds to be played to
and from local and remote Unix systems. Sounds can be played with or without
sending audio data over the network using either UDP or TCP. rplay audio
servers can be configured to share sound files with each other.
The rplay audio server supports the following sound formats: AU, AIFF, WAV,
VOC, UB, UL, G.721 4-bit, G.723 3-bit, G.723 5-bit, GSM. Other formats such
as MPEG 1.0/2.0 and Modules can also be played using helper conversion
applications. Sounds can also be played directly from CDROM.
Tk3play plays mpeg layer I, II, and III audio files with a Tk interface.
Yarec is yet another sample recorder/player. It has support for a curses
based UI and both Linux sound drivers. Supported file formats are WAV and
AIFF.
© 1999 by Stefan Hornburg
<racke@linuxia.de>
Last modified 29. May 1999