| FLAC | Version: 1.2.1-1 |
Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line tools
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is
similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of:
* The stream format
* libFLAC, which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder, and file
decoder
* flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode
.flac files
* Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the
works)
This package contains the command-line tools flac (used for encoding and
decoding FLACs) and metaflac (used for manipulating FLAC metadata.)
| Required | SharedUnixLibrary (>= 1.11) |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| Lame | Version: 3.99.3-1 |
open source MP3 encoder
Lame is a program which can be used to create compressed
audio files. (Lame aint MP3 encoder). These audio files
can be played back by popular mp3 players such as mpg123.
To read from stdin, use "-" for
stdout, use a "-" for
This package contains the frontend encoder binary.
| Required | SharedUnixLibrary (>= 1.11) |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| Sox | Version: 14.3.2-1 |
Swiss army knife of sound processing
SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer
audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these
sound files during the conversion. As an added bonus, SoX can play and record
audio files on several unix-style platforms.
SoX is able to handle formats like Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, AIFF, VOC, SND, AU,
GSM and several more.
Any format support requires at least libsox-fmt-base. Some formats have their
own package e.g. mp3 read and write support is provided by libsox-fmt-mp3.
SoX supports most common sound architectures i.e. Alsa, Libao, OSS and Pulse
(respectively provided by libsox-fmt-alsa, libsox-fmt-ao, libsox-fmt-oss and
libsox-fmt-pulse). It also supports LADSPA plugins.
| Required | SharedUnixLibrary (>= 1.11) |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| Vorbis-Tools | Version: 1.4.0-1 |
several Ogg Vorbis tools
vorbis-tools contains oggenc (an encoder), ogg123 (a playback tool),
ogginfo (displays ogg information), oggdec (decodes ogg files), vcut
(ogg file splitter), and vorbiscomment (ogg comment editor).
ogg123 can play both Ogg Vorbis and FLAC audio streams.
| Required | SharedUnixLibrary (>= 1.11) |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| freepats | Version: 20060219-1 |
Free patch set for MIDI audio synthesis
Freepats is a free patch set suitable for MIDI audio synthesis. It is not
complete, nor comprehensive yet, and most, if not all patches are in the
old and limited GUS patch format.
It is, however, the sole DFSG-compliant patch set in existence so far.
New patches (including those in better formats, such as SF2 SoundFont banks)
are welcome.
| Required | Nothing |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |
| madplay | Version: 0.15.2b-1 |
MPEG audio player in fixed point
MAD is an MPEG audio decoder. It currently only supports the MPEG 1
standard, but fully implements all three audio layers (Layer I, Layer II,
and Layer III, the latter often colloquially known as MP3.). There is also
full support for ID3 tags.
All work is done in fixed point, so it even works on machines without an FPU.
| Required | UnixLib |
| Recommended | Nothing |
| Suggested | Nothing |
| Conflicts with | Nothing |