Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Announcing USound, the Useful Sound Daemon, version 0.2.0
From: Matt Campbell (mattcampbell_AT_pobox.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 07:53:07 EET
USound (the Useful Sound Daemon) is an audio I/O daemon for Unix
systems, especially GNU/Linux. It provides low-latency mixing of
multiple audio streams with resampling and limited format conversion, as
well as audio recording. The package also includes a client library, a
libao plugin, and patches for madplay and MPlayer. USound is free
software; it is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL),
except for the client library, which is in the public domain.
USound is somewhat similar to the Enlightened Sound Daemon (EsounD); but
as the name implies, USound aims to be more useful, particularly for
consumer desktop and multimedia applications. Applications for which
USound is suitable include media players, audio and video conferencing
software, text-to-speech software, and any application that plays the
occasional sound file to alert the user.
USound is still under development and by no means perfect, but in my
(admittedly biased) opinion, it has already surpassed EsounD and aRts in
usefulness. The USound home page is at:
http://pobox.com/~mattcampbell/usound/
Have fun!
Matt
(who is listening to an MP3 with USound and madplay right now)
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