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CLI audio players for Linux

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT
What would life be without music? Given the proper codecs, in Linux you can play almost any digital audio format. Linux has many graphical applications that can do the job, such as Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, and XMMS, all of which provide an intuitive user interface, playlist sorting, and various other options. But what if you want low resource usage so you can play tunes on aging hardware? Here are some alternative players for the Linux command line.

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get_sound_input_cap_bits

get_sound_input_cap_bits(3alleg4)				  Allegro manual				 get_sound_input_cap_bits(3alleg4)

NAME

       get_sound_input_cap_bits - Checks which audio input sample formats are supported. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       int get_sound_input_cap_bits();

DESCRIPTION

       Checks which sample formats are supported by the current audio input driver, returning one of the bitfield values:

	  0 = audio input not supported
	  8 = eight bit audio input is supported
	  16 = sixteen bit audio input is supported
	  24 = both eight and sixteen bit audio input are supported
       Example:

	  cap = get_sound_input_cap_bits();
	  if (cap == 0) {
	     /* Ugh, no audio input supported? */
	  } else {
	     if (cap & 8) {
		/* We have eight bit audio input. */
	     }
	     if (cap & 16) {
		/* We have sixteen bit audio input. */
	     }
	  }

SEE ALSO

       start_sound_input(3alleg4), get_sound_input_cap_parm(3alleg4), get_sound_input_cap_rate(3alleg4), get_sound_input_cap_stereo(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2				 get_sound_input_cap_bits(3alleg4)

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