The libao package contains a cross-platform audio library. This is useful to output audio on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports WAV files, OSS (Open Sound System), ESD (Enlighten Sound Daemon) and ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture).
Download (HTTP): http://www.xiph.org/ao/src/libao-0.8.5.tar.gz
Download size: 262 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 2.7 MB
Estimated build time: 0.10 SBU
X (XFree86-4.4.0 or X.org-6.7.0), EsounD-0.2.34, ALSA-1.0.4, aRts-1.2.2 and NAS-1.6
Install libao by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install
The libao package contains libao libraries.