Features

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Some of the more interesting features in AlsaPlayer are

• Full speed (pitch) control, positive *and* negative!
  This is the first Linux and only GPL player that supports this. You can scratch mp3's and even audio CD's in realtime.
• Icecast/shoutcast streaming support
  
• Interface plugins
  Completely redefine the user interface
• Remote control
  Control alsaplayer from another application
• Low latency mode
  On capable soundcards latency can be as low as 1.3ms!
• Playlist/Queue support
• Plays nice with concurrent audio tools
  Doesn't touch the hardware mixer
• Concurrent visual scopes
  Open as many scopes as there are.
• Multi-threaded design
  This results in efficient/skip free playback. You can also activate real-time scheduling for even better performance.
• Accurate scope/audio syncing
• Portable

Supported file formats

• Ogg Vorbis files (.ogg)
  First player worldwide that did perfect reverse Ogg playback! hehe :)
• MP3 files using MAD (default plugin for MP3)
• MP3 audio files using the mpg123 based plugin
• WAV files
• CDDA, CD Digital Audio playback (digital ripping), with CDDB lookup
• All MODULES supported by MikMod
• All file types supported by the Audio File Library
• FLAC files. A lossless compression scheme.

Supported sound systems

AlsaPlayer supports quite a few sound systems, not just ALSA, as the name might suggest. Currently we support the following APIs

• JACK
  A low-latency audio server, written primarily for the Linux operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves.
• ALSA
  The next-generation audio interface for Linux. ALSA was recently merged in the 2.5.x Linux tree. It has many advantages over the old OSS interface.
• OSS
  The old Linux audio API. This is still widely used.
• SGI
  For SGI (IRIX) systems, using the SGI audio library.
• NAS
  Network Audio Server. X11 for audio if you will.
• ESD
  Esound, found in GNOME.
• Null
  Nosound driver, useful for testing.

Last modified: 28 Mar 2022 1:23 AM by Dominique Michel

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