Linux Sound Programming, 1st ed.

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Program audio and sound for Linux using this practical, how-to guide. You will learn how to use DSPs, sampled audio, MIDI, karaoke, streaming audio, and more. Linux Sound Programming takes you through the layers of complexity involved in programming the Linux sound system. You?ll see the large variety of tools and approaches that apply to almost every aspect of sound. This ranges from audio codecs, to audio players, to audio support both within and outside of the Linux kernel.


What You'll Learn
  • Work with sampled audio
  • Handle Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
  • Gain knowledge of MIDI
  • Build a Karaoke-like application
  • Handle streaming audio 

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Linux users and programmers interested in doing multimedia with Linux.

1. Basic concepts of sound
2. User level tools
3. Sound codecs and file formats
4. Overview of Linux sound architecture
5. ALSA
6. PulseAudio
7. Jack
8. Session Management
9. Java Sound
10. GStreamer
11. libao
12. FFmpeg/LibAV
13. OpenMAX IL
14. LADSPA
15. Displaying video with overlays using Gtk and FFMpeg
16. MIDI
17. User level tools for MIDI
18. MIDI Java Sound
19. MIDI ALSA
20. FluidSynth
21. Timidity
22. Overview of Karaoke Systems
23. Karaoke user level tools
24. MP3+G
25. Karaoke Applications using Java Sound
26. Subtitles and Closed Captions
27. Karaoke FluidSynth
28. TiMidity and Karaoke
29. Jack and Karaoke
30. Streaming Audio
31. Raspberry Pi
32. Conclusion
Appendix: Decoding the DKD files on the Sonken Karaoke DVD

Jan Newmarch is Head of ICT (Higher Education) at Box Hill Institute, Adjunct Professor at Canberra University and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Information Technology, Computing and Mathematics at Charles Sturt University. He is interested in more aspects of computing than he has time to pursue, but the major thrust over the last few years has developed from user interfaces under Unix into Java, the Web and now into general distributed systems. Jan has developed a number of publicly available software systems in these areas. Right now, he is looking at sound for Linux systems and programming the Raspberry Pi's GPU.


Contains in-depth information on the Linux sound system

Shows you how to build a Karaoke-like application in Linux

Will teach you how to handle sampled and streaming audio in Linux