Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 6.1

Chapter 37. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

Audio File-0.2.6

Introduction to Audio File

The Audio File package contains the audio file libraries and two sound file support programs. These are useful to support basic sound file formats.

Package Information

Installation of Audio File

Install Audio File by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: audiofile-config, sfinfo, and sfconvert
Installed Library: libaudiofile.[so,a]
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

audiofile-config

is used during the compile process by programs linking to this library.

sfinfo

displays the sound file format, audio encoding, sampling rate and duration for audio formats supported by this library.

sfconvert

converts sound file formats where the original format and destination format are supported by this library.

libaudiofile.[so,a]

contains functions used by programs to support AIFF, AIFF-compressed, Sun/NeXT, WAV and BIC audio formats.

Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600