Specifications

5. Applications Supporting Sound
I give here a sample of the types of applications that you likely want if you have a sound card under Linux.
You can check the Linux Software Map, Internet archive sites, and/or files on your Linux CD−ROM for
more up to date information.
If you are running a graphical desktop such as KDE or GNOME then it should already include a number of
multimedia applications that are integrated with your desktop.
As a minimum, you will likely want to obtain the following sound applications:
audio file format conversion utility (e.g. sox) •
mixer utility (e.g. aumix or xmix) •
digitized file player/recorder (e.g. play or wavplay) •
MOD file player (e.g. tracker) •
MIDI file player (e.g. playmidi) •
There are text−based as well as GUI−based versions of most of these tools. There are also some more
esoteric applications (e.g. speech synthesis and recognition) that you may wish to try.
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