it to save tracks from an Audio CD as WAV, MP3, OGG, and/or FLAC.
WWW: http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/
PR: ports/116411
Submitted by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
The plugin allows you to browse, and preview available albums.
(It uses the 128kbit mp3 version). The magnatune plugin provides a double
function, it also uses the data from the magnatune website to fetch cover art.
WWW: http://sarine.nl/gmpc-plugins
Ecamegapedal is a real-time effect processor software with
a graphical user interface for controlling the effect
parameters. It is meant to be used as a virtual guitar-fx
or studio effect box. In addition to real-time operation,
Ecamegapedal also supports reading from and writing to audio
files. All audio object and effect plugin types provided
by the Ecasound libraries are supported. This includes ALSA,
JACK, OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types,
LADSPA plugins and multi-operator effect presets. Ecamegapedal's
implementation is based on Ecasound and Qt libraries.
WWW: http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecamegapedal/
PR: ports/115460
Submitted by: dk <lazyklimm@gmail.com>
the PulseAudio sound server.
Please note that this program can only configure local servers, and requires
that a special module module-gconf is loaded in the sound server. (Since
PulseAudio 0.9.5 this modules is loaded by default.)
WWW: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/paprefs/
PR: ports/115318
Submitted by: Romain Tartière <romain at blogreen.org>
tool ("mixer") for the PulseAudio sound server. In contrast to classic mixer
tools this one allows you to control both the volume of hardware devices and of
each playback stream seperately.
WWW: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavucontrol/
PR: ports/115320
Submitted by: Romain Tartière <romain at blogreen.org>
an icon in the tray area and allows quick access to some features of the
PulseAudio sound server. Specifically it can do for you:
- Notify about new sink/sources becoming available on the LAN
- Quickly change the default PulseAudio sink/source/server assigned to the
current X11 display, selecting devices available on the LAN
- Start the auxiliary tools PulseAudio Volume Control, PulseAudio Volume
Meter, PulseAudio Manager, PulseAudio Preferences
WWW: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/padevchooser/
PR: ports/115315
Submitted by: Romain Tartière <romain at blogreen.org>
SNESAPU emulation core. Currently on runs on x86 only, due SNESAPU
being written in NASM x86 assembly.
WWW: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sexyspc/
PR: ports/115223
Submitted by: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com>
It is designed to make common, simple tasks fast and easy to do. It is operated
using arrow keys and standard XMMS keys, to make it easy and intuitive to learn.
WWW: http://xmms-curses.sourceforge.net/
And yes, I know that "xmms's dead, baby, xmms is dead..."
Spectral Band Resonation + Parametric Stereo, or AAC + SBR + PS), also known as
HE-AAC+ (High Efficiency AAC+). Developed by Coding Technologies, based on the
reference code obtained from 3GPP, repackaged to compile on contemporary Linux
by Matteo Croce.
WWW: http://teknoraver.campuslife.it/
mp3plot prints out a plot of the bitrate distribution of a VBR MP3 file
(it will also do it for CBR files although it isn't very meaningful).
WWW: http://p.outlyer.net/mp3plot/
Author: Toni Corvera < outlyer at gmail dot com >
collections in mind, which makes managing your music a breeze.
WWW: http://nooms.de/projects/abraca
PR: ports/113189
Submitted by: Olivier Smedts <olivier at gid0.org>
* Tablature editor
* Score Viewer
* Multitrack display
* Autoscroll while playing
* Note duration management
* Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off)
* Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12)
* Repeat open and close
* Time signature management
* Tempo management
* Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files
WWW: http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/
PR: ports/112169
Submitted by: Pietro Cerutti (gahr at gahr.ch)
using GTK+2.
Features:
=========
* Simple and Clean Interface.
* Library Browser.
* Library search. (search by artist, album, filename, etc)
* Playlist management (manage mpd playlists)
* ID3v2 tag editing support.
* System tray icon support.
* Support for controlling gimmix through Keyboard.
* Notification support (Displays the currently playing song in systray).
* Small memory footprint.
WWW: http://gimmix.berlios.de/index.php
PR: ports/111482
Submitted by: Matthieu Guegan <matt.guegan at free.fr>
2007-04-10 audio/marlin: does not build with new nautilus-cd-burner
2007-04-10 chinese/tatter-tools: Incorrect pkg-plist
2007-04-10 chinese/vim-scdoc: Does not build
2007-04-10 databases/mergeant: does not build with new libgnomedb
2007-04-10 databases/pecl-paradox: Does not compile
2007-04-10 deskutils/yank: Incomplete pkg-plist
Post.FM is a Perl script that submits information about your currently
played track to Last.FM / Audioscrobbler. It's primarily made for CMUS,
a ncurses based music player, but could be used as a general purpose
scrobbler with only minor modifications.
Author: Jonas Kramer <lizer@gmx.net>
WWW: http://nex.scrapping.cc/post-fm/
units capable of (and intended for) realtime operation. The suite
includes DSP units emulating instrument amplifiers, stomp-box
classics, versatile 'virtual analogue' oscillators, fractal
oscillation, reverb, equalization and others.
WWW: http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html
PR: ports/109990
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
- Up to 64 patches with 8 notes of polyphony each
- Fast, high quality pitch scaling
- Linear ADSR volume envelopes
- MIDI/jack-transport syncable LFOs
- Low pass filter with resonance
- A variety of direction-independent playback modes
- A zoomable sample editor for loop and play points
- Portamento
WWW: http://zhevny.com/specimen/
PR: ports/109986
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
This Python module lets you load and decode Musepack (MPC/MP+ files).
Its API has been chosen to mostly match pyvorbis and pymad. It also
includes a module to read and write APEv2 metadata tags.
WWW: http://sacredchao.net/~piman/software/python.shtml
PR: 109070
Submitted by: Zhen REN
a countless number of instruments, from some common heared from
expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you'll boost to an
amazing universe of sounds.
WWW: http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/108460
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
classic-analog (VCOs-VCF-VCA) style software synthesizer with an
editor GUI. Xsynth-DSSI was written by Sean Bolton, and was based
on Steve Brooke's Xsynth code, but has since aquired polyphonic
operation, band-limited oscillators, a better filter mode, and
velocity-sensitive envelopes.
WWW: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/download.html
PR: ports/108438
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
seconds of audio _before_ you click the "Record" button. The idea
is that, when you hear an interesting sound, you can press record
and capture it, without having to try and recreate it.
WWW: http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/
PR: ports/108431
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
(like audio/ghostess) using your computer's keyboard.
It's somewhat similar in purpose to vkeybd, except that jack-keyboard
uses JACK MIDI instead of ALSA.
See the README file for keyboard mapping.
WWW: http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/jack-keyboard/
PR: ports/108242
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
TB-303 Bassline. It is not an exact copy; rather than make it "just
like the real thing", the design concentrates on modelling the
circuitry and was adjusted by comparing the sounds achievable with
it to those heard on classic acid house tracks. It includes a
switchable square/saw wave VCO, 24dB/octave VCF, an adjustable decay
time for the VCF, a fixed decay time for the VCA, and an interesting
bit of circuitry around the "Accent" control.
WWW: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nekobee/
PR: ports/108148
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
of a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. It can easily load most DX7 patch bank
files, accept patch editing commands via MIDI sys-ex messages (ALSA
systems only), and recreate the sound of the DX7 with greater
accuracy than any previous open-source emulation (that the author
is aware of....)
hexter operates as a plugin for the Disposable Soft Synth Interface
(DSSI).
WWW: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html
PR: ports/108147
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
capable of saving and restoring plugin configuration, as well as
specifying MIDI channels and layering synths. ghostess includes
three MIDI drivers: an ALSA sequencer MIDI driver, a (clumsy but
functional) CoreMIDI driver (which allows ghostess to be used on
Mac OS X), and a JACK MIDI driver for use with the MIDI transport
in recent versions (>=0.102.27) of JACK. ghostess also comes with
a universal DSSI GUI, which attempts to provide GUI services for
any DSSI or LADSPA plugin, and may be used with any DSSI host.
WWW: http://home.jps.net/~musound/
PR: ports/108131
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
for media files to the Thunar File Manager.
Currently, these are:
* a so-called bulk renamer, which allows users to rename multiple audio
files at once, based on their tags (e.g. ID3 or OGG/Vorbis),
* a special media file page for the file properties dialog, which
displays detailed information about quality, length etc.,
* and finally, an audio tag editor which is reachable from both,
renamer and the properties page.
WWW: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-media-tags-plugin
software synthesizer, allowing it to function as a DSSI plugin.
WWW: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/108124
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
It aims to be efficient (no toolbar, main menu, or statusbar), user-friendly,
and clean.
FEATURES:
+ Expanded and collapsed views
+ Automatic remote or local album art
+ Automatic fetching of lyrics
+ Playlist and stream support
+ Support for editing song tags
+ System tray icon with tooltip
+ Popup notification
+ Library searching by artist, song, etc.
+ Keyboard friendly
+ Support for multimedia keys
+ Commandline control
WWW: http://sonata.berlios.de/index.html
Approved by: alexbl (mentor, implicit)
Scott Wheeler's TagLib.
TagPy can:
* read and write ID3 tags of version 1 and 2, with many supported
frame types for version 2 (in MPEG Layer 2 and MPEG Layer 3,
FLAC and MPC)
* access Xiph Comments in Ogg Vorbis Files and Ogg Flac Files
* access APE tags in Musepack and MP3 files.
WWW: http://news.tiker.net/software/tagpy
Approved by: alexbl (mentor, implicit)
small patterns of MIDI events that you can repeat and arrange to
create a whole song. Each track has its own patterns, so you can
for example play the same drum pattern over and over again while
you play different lead synth patterns and basslines.
WWW: http://dino.nongnu.org/
PR: ports/107877
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
It is an implementation of a proposal that originated from this
discussion. Its aim is to allow you to have many different audio
programs running at once, to save their setup, close them down and
then easily reload the setup at some other time. LASH doesn't deal
with any kind of audio data itself; it just runs programs, deals
with saving/loading (arbitrary) data and connects different kinds
of virtual audio ports together (currently JACK and ALSA sequencer
ports). It can also be used to move entire sessions between
computers, or post sessions on the Internet for download.
WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/lash/
PR: ports/107875
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
particularly useful for software synthesis plugins with user
interfaces.
DSSI is an open and well-documented specification developed for use
in Linux audio applications, although portable to other platforms.
It may be thought of as LADSPA-for-instruments, or something
comparable to VSTi.
DSSI consists of a C language API for use by plugins and hosts,
based on the LADSPA API, and an OSC (Open Sound Control) API for
use in user interface to host communications. The DSSI specification
consists of an RFC which describes the background for the proposal
and defines the OSC part of the specification, and a documented
header file which defines the C API.
WWW: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/107867
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
to the Ogg, MP3, or FLAC formats. It is easy, requiring a few mouse
clicks to convert an entire album, displaying progress along the
way. It can rip and encode in parallel, and supports CDD.
WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ripperx/
PR: ports/107493
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
JACK Rack is an effects "rack" for the JACK low latency audio API. The rack
can be filled with LADSPA effects plugins. It's phat; it turns your computer
into an effects box.
WWW: http://jack-rack.sourceforge.net/
Exaile is a media player aiming to be similar to KDE's AmaroK, but for
GTK+. It incorporates many of the cool things from AmaroK (and other
media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large
libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via the wikipedia,
last.fm support, optional iPod support (assuming you have python-gpod
installed).
WWW: http://www.exaile.org/
Author: Adam Olsen <arolsen@gmail.com>
Description:
This is a SlimServer plugin to add lazy search capabilities. Lazy
searching allows for much faster entry of search text by allowing
you to forget about multi-tapping and instead just press each of
the remote control buttons once for each of the letters in the text,
whatever position the letter appears in above the button.
WWW: http://hickinbottom.demon.co.uk/lazysearch/
in the playlist and determines whether an album is playing or if
random tracks are playing. After that determination, it sets the
player's transition behavior (crossfade, fade, etc) appropriately.
The transition behavior for the album/random/default cases can be
changed by modifying the values of the four global variables at the
top of Transitions.pm. There is also a user configurable section
for excluding specific genres from being processed for album/random
detection. In these cases, the 'default' transition preference will
be used.
WWW: http://www.sutula.us/james/slimserver/
gentoo and debain. Also, there is no ports that depend on this. I think it is
pointless for us to keep it alives when it is dead outside FreeBSD. Therefore,
remove this port.
Discussed with: ahze
API for Burn.app's the audio file conversion bundles. MP3ToWav.bundle
converts, as its name implies, mp3 audio files into wav audio files
which can be burned onto a CD playable in your home stereo.
WWW: http://gsburn.sourceforge.net/
2006-12-01 lang/clips: Unfetchable
2006-12-07 audio/gdesklets-xmms: Disappeared from the internet
2006-12-01 games/flightgear-l410: is incompatible with the latest FlightGear release
edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video
soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows.
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-linear,
non-destructive region based editing with unlimited undo/redo,
full automation support, a mixer whose capabilities rival high
end hardware consoles, lots of plugins to warp, shift and shape
your music, and controllable from hardware control surfaces
at the same time as it syncs to timecode. If you've been looking
for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Cubase SX, Digital
Performer, Samplitude or Sequoia, you might have found it.
WWW: http://ardour.org/
PR: ports/106450
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
the main functionalities are as follows:
* Discover Airport Express by Apple Rendezvous
* Browse music files
(Supported music file format: m4a(alac or aac), wav, mp3, ogg, aac, pls)
* Send selected files to the Airport Express
* Play mp3 stream data (filename started with "http://")
WWW: http://raop-play.sourceforge.net/
daemon. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon
parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way
to control of the status of the audio server daemon. With time,
this primordial interface has become richer by including a enhanced
patchbay and connection control features.
WWW: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/106430
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
NOMAD and Zen range plus the Dell DJ devices using the Portable Digital
Entertainment (PDE) protocol.
WWW: http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net
PR: ports/106424
Submitted by: Petar Zhivkov Petrov (pesho.petrov at gmail.com)
interface. JAMin is an open source application designed to perform
professional audio mastering of stereo input streams. It uses LADSPA
for digital signal processing (DSP).
WWW: http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html
PR: ports/106407
Submitted by: trasz <trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl>
LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and
closed-source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the
ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops,
synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your
MIDI keyboard and much more...
LMMS combines the features of a tracker/sequencer program (pattern/channel/
sample/song/effect management) and those of powerful synthesizers and samplers
in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user interface.
WWW: http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
2006-12-01 audio/xmms-rateplug: Project disappeared from the internet
2006-12-01 chinese/iiimf-le-chewing: fails to install (dependency problem)
2006-12-01 deskutils/mhc-xemacs21-mule: hangs during build
2006-12-01 devel/alleyoop: Does not compile
2006-12-01 devel/hs-crypto: is incompatible with current GHC, needs updating
2006-12-01 editors/gedit-autocomplete-plugin: Not compatible with gedit versions >= 2.14
2006-12-01 emulators/basiliskII: Does not compile
2006-12-01 emulators/vmware-tools2: Unfetchable
2006-12-01 emulators/vmware2: Unfetchable
2006-12-03 finance/ccard: Project disappeared from the internet
XAnalyser is a program to analyse a stereo audio signal. It has two displays:
Frequency Spectrum
Using Fast Fourier Transform, the time domain of the signal is transformed into
the frequency domain, i.e. the amplitude (in logarithmic scale) of the
audio signal is plotted versus the frequency. Either the sum of the
left and right channel of the audio signal can be shown or both
channels simultaneously.
XY Scope
Roughly speaking, the audio signal of left channel deflects a point
horizontally and the right channel vertically (just as the beam of a CRT
would do). Thus, an audio signal only present on the left channel produces
a horizontal line, whereas an audio signal only present on the right channel
produces a vertical line. A mono signal produces a 45 degree line.
A stereo signal creates a wilde pattern (if the phase is correct,
predominately in the same direction as a mono signal) or may even fill
the entire scope.
WWW: http://arvin.schnell-web.net/xanalyser/
PR: 105059
Submitted by: Diane Bruce <db@db.net>
Approved by: tmclaugh (mentor)
fdmf is portable perl/C software for finding pairs of music files in a
collection that are likely to contain the same music. It works on the
music itself, not on the filename, tags, or headers. It uses an audio
fingerprint, or perceptual hash to recognize the duplicate files. It is
currently under heavy development, so it might be buggy, broken, or
otherwise bad. But it works for me.
WWW: http://www.w140.com/audio/
Author: Kurt Rosenfeld <kurt at w140 dot com>
Aqualung is a music player. It plays audio files from your filesystem
and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.
WWW: http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/
This is a library to make it easy to manipulate RDF files describing LADSPA
plugins.
It can also be used for general RDF manipulation.
It can read RDF/XLM and N3 files and export N3 files, it also has a light
taxonomic inference capablility.
WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrdf/
Oggz provides a simple programming interface for reading and writing
Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container developed
by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.
liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:
* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close interface
to raw Ogg files
* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg data
* A packet queue for feeding incoming packets for writing, with
callback based notification when this queue is empty
* A means of overriding the IO functions used by Oggz, for easier
integration with media frameworks and similar systems.
* A handy table structure for storing information on each logical
bitstream
WWW: http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/
channels with different rate codecs and several people on each channel.
Primarily aimed at team gamers but can be used as an IP phone as well.
WWW: http://www.ventrilo.com/
PR: ports/95071
Submitted by: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz>
UModPlayer or Universal Module Player is a audio module "tool-chain",
providing you functions to work with modules like playing, exporting,
getting information, and more.
* You can play the supported formats and seek to any order in the
song. You have pause, timer, display, and other standard features.
* You can view the pattern notes while playing.
* Playlist support: you can create playlists, delete or move
individual items in a playlist, import a playlist from the current
directory contents, save a playlist and load a saved playlist...
* You can specify any of the ModPlug options: noise reduction,
megabass, surround, reverb sound options specifying the grade and
the delay of most of the options.
* You can export the audio data of a module to any of the supported
formats
* You can read and export to a file the song builtin message, the
song instrument names and the song sample names.
* Each user of your UNIX box can save all the sound options.
* And much more!
WWW: http://umodplayer.sourceforge.net/
LibAiff is a library for C applications, providing transparent read and
write operations for Audio Interchange File Format files.
With LibAiff your application can easily use the Audio IFF format to
interchange digital audio.
LibAiff wants to implement all the features of the AIFF 1.3 standard,
including markers, comments, etc.
This version of LibAiff supports the following features:
* Reading any valid Audio IFF file.
* Writing a valid Audio IFF file.
* Reading a compressed AIFF Compressed (AIFC) file with audio encoded
in Linear PCM, both big-endian and little-endian.
* Read & write samples in all formats supported by the Audio IFF standard.
* Convert any sample format to and from 32 bits.
* Getting and setting all the AIFF Attributes.
* Reading and writing markers to positions on the sound.
* Reading instrument data from AIFF files.
WWW: http://aifftools.sourceforge.net/libaiff/
GNUstep and Mac OS X. Similar in look and feel to XMMS, it can read the
most-known sound file formats: MP3, Ogg, FLAC, Mod, XM, AIFF, WAV and more.
Very easy to use, it integrates well with the GNUstep desktop environment
and shows a nice example of a cross-platform OpenStep application.
PR: 102901
Submitted by: Gürkan Sengün
(ALUT).
It is well suited to producing succinct demo programs and to help
new developers to get started with OpenAL without distractions
such as loading sound samples from disk.
WWW: http://www.openal.org/
PR: ports/102854
Submitted by: Jona Joachim <walkingshadow at grummel.net>
All you need to receive DRM transmissions is a PC with a sound card and a
modified analog short-wave (MW, LW) receiver.
WWW: http://drm.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/102761
Submitted by: Soeren Straarup <xride(at)x12.dk>
the code from alsa-lib 1.0.8, necessary to support DSSI on non-ALSA
systems.
WWW: http://home.jps.net/~musound/
More information on DSSI can be found at:
WWW: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/100498
Submitted by: rlazio <mahonmesr@googlemail.com>
JukeBox and Dell DJ digital audio players under BSD, Linux, Mac OS X and
Windows.
WWW: http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/
PR: ports/100462
Submitted by: adrianm <teksimian@gmail.com>
libnoise is a portable C++ library that is used to generate coherent
noise, a type of smoothly-changing noise. libnoise can generate
Perlin noise, ridged multifractal noise, and other types of
coherent-noise.
Coherent noise is often used by graphics programmers to generate
natural-looking textures, planetary terrain, and other things. The
mountain scene shown above was rendered in Terragen with a terrain
file generated by libnoise. You can also view some other examples of
what libnoise can do.
In libnoise, coherent-noise generators are encapsulated in classes
called noise modules. There are many different types of noise
modules. Some noise modules can combine or modify the outputs of
other noise modules in various ways; you can join these modules
together to generate very complex coherent noise.
WWW: http://libnoise.sourceforge.net/
you played to last.fm, formerly known as AudioScrobbler.
WWW: http://code-monkey.de/pages/xmms2-scrobbler
PR: ports/102511
Submitted by: Alexander Botero-Lowry <alex at foxybanana.com>
Features include:
* LCD for elapsed time,
* Nice display of song information
* Interfaces to the playlist and media library
PR: ports/102508
Submitted by: Alexander Botero-Lowry <alex at foxybanana.com>
and has some unique features, like chroot()'ing and dropping privileges.
This makes it an ideal application for low-end jukeboxes.
WWW: http://g-rave.nl/projects/herrie/
PR: ports/101159
Submitted by: Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
Perl Audio Converter (PAC) is a tool for converting multiple audio types
from one format to another. It supports MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC,
Shorten, Monkey Audio, FAAC (AAC/M4A/MP4), Musepack (MPC), Wavpack (WV),
OptimFrog (OFR/OFS), TTA, LPAC, Kexis (KXS), AIFF, AC3, Lossless Audio
(LA), BONK, AU, SND, RAW, VOC, SMP, RealAudio (RA/RAM), WAV, and WMA. It
can also convert audio from the following video formats/extensions: RM,
RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, VOB, and WMV. A
CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch and playlist conversion,
tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/
writing, and extensions for Konqueror and Amarok are also provided.
WWW: http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/
Author: Philip Lyons <viiron@gmail.com>
OptimFROG is a lossless audio compression program. Its main goal is to
reduce at maximum the size of audio files, while permitting bit identical
restoration for all input. It is similar with the ZIP compression, but it
is highly specialized to compress audio data.
OptimFROG obtains asymptotically the best lossless audio compression
ratios. It has Windows, Linux, and Mac versions, fully featured input
plug-ins for the Windows Media Player, foobar2000, Winamp2/3/5, dBpowerAMP,
XMPlay, QCD, and XMMS audio players (with bitstream error resilience,
ID3v1.1 and APEv2 read tagging support, ID3v2 compatible), optimal support
for all integer PCM wave formats up to 32 bits and an extensible streamable
(error tolerant) compressed format. It is also fast, the default mode
encodes CD quality audio data at 12.4x real-time and decodes at 17.4x real-
time on AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (the fastest mode encodes at 28.1x real-time
and decodes at 24.7x real-time). Self-extracting (sfx) archives can also be
created with a small overhead of just 54 KB.
WWW: http://www.losslessaudio.org/
Author: Florin Ghido <FlorinGhido@yahoo.com>
LPAC is a codec (coder / decoder) for lossless compression of digital audio
files. "Lossless" means that any compressed file can be decompressed in a way
it will be bit-wise identical with the original. This is the main advantage
of LPAC compared to lossy formats like MP3, WMA or RealAudio. On the other
hand, lossy codecs can achieve higher compression ratios. For example, MP3 at
128 kbit/s achieves a (fixed) compression ratio of 11, whereas LPAC's
compression ratios range from 1.5 to 4, strongly depending on the audio
material. Typically they are around 2 for pop music and 2.5 for classical
music. This may not seem much, but remember you will get back every single
bit, no matter how often you subsequently compress and decompress a file. It
is true that general archivers (Zip, LZH, gzip) are lossless, too, but they
often achieve nearly no compression on audio files.
WWW: http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html
Kexis - A lossless WAV file compressor. Kexis' main goal is to develop
prediction and encoding schemes to minimize compressed file size. Kexis
strives to be the premier lossless sound encoder.
WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kexis/
This module returns a hash containing basic information about a
Musepack file, as well as tag information contained in the Musepack
file's APE tags. See Audio::APETags for more information about the
tags.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-Musepack/
