Linux Sound Programming

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Jan Newmarch, Linux Sound Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2496-0_11

11. libao

Jan Newmarch¹ 

(1)Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia

According to the libao documentation ( www.xiph.org/ao/doc/overview.html ), “libao is designed to make it easy to do simple audio output using various audio devices and libraries. For this reason, complex audio control features are missing and wi ll probably never be added. However, if you just want to be able to open whatever audio device is available and play sound, libao should be just fine.”

Resources

Check out the following:

• libao documentation ( www.xiph.org/ao/doc/ )

libao

libao is an extremely minimal library; it basically just plays audio data. It does not decode any of the standard file formats: no ...