From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 30 23:31:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8848537B76A for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12m7qG-000Acc-00; Mon, 01 May 2000 05:29:56 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12m7qG-000L4p-00; Mon, 01 May 2000 05:29:56 +0100 Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 05:29:56 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Shawn Barnhart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound on FreeBSD FAQ? Message-ID: <20000501052956.B58326@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <00b001bfb30c$dc2b06d0$0102a8c0@k6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00b001bfb30c$dc2b06d0$0102a8c0@k6> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Barnhart wrote: > There a "preferred" set of command line audio applications for FreeBSD? > I'm interested in the ability to do basic control of the sound card > (AWE64 using pcm device in 4.0STABLE), like adjust volume and input > levels, record and play sounds in WAV or MP3s. /usr/ports/audio has > about a zillon applications, and I don't know where to start. "mixer" in the base system can control the volume. The "audio/amp" port is a command line MP3 player, which I use in conjunction with another command line program to play random tracks from a playlist etc. (This program is rather specific to my own needs, but if you want to look at it go to and send me the diffs to improve it.) The "play" program in the "audio/sox" port seems to be able to play WAV files. I've never had to record, so I can't help you with that, but the best (well, fastest) MP3 encoder I've found is the "audio/lame" port. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message