<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Applications Supporting Sound</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Sound HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Installation" HREF="x320.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Answers To Frequently Asked Questions" HREF="x504.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Sound HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x320.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x504.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN478" >5. Applications Supporting Sound</A ></H1 ><P >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.</P ><P >If you are running a graphical desktop such as <A HREF="http://www.kde.org" TARGET="_top" >KDE</A > or <A HREF="http://www.gnome.org" TARGET="_top" >GNOME</A > then it should already include a number of multimedia applications that are integrated with your desktop.</P ><P >As a minimum, you will likely want to obtain the following sound applications: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >audio file format conversion utility (e.g. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >sox</TT >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >mixer utility (e.g. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >aumix</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >xmix</TT >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >digitized file player/recorder (e.g. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >play</TT > or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >wavplay</TT >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >MOD file player (e.g. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >tracker</TT >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >MIDI file player (e.g. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >playmidi</TT >)</P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P >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.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x320.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x504.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Installation</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Answers To Frequently Asked Questions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
