This section has nothing to do with the actual playing of sound files. Rather, it is a collection of some sound utilities that one might find useful.
volumeThis is a simple command line interface for controlling the volume. It
also has a separate Tcl/Tk interface included in the package for
controlling the volume and playing .au sound files.
It is very useful for people who don't have hardware volume control, don't want to pump in extra electricity for the external amplifiers (which might degrade the sound output, unless you have a good one), don't have much need for really loud sounds, and want a convenient command line interface (I'm a command line geek) for controlling the volume.
This is Freeware and it is written by Sam Lantinga (
slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu).
It can be found at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/volume-1.1.tgz.
setmixerThis is a command line mixer control program.
The author is Michal Jaegermann (
michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca).
This beta Tcl/Tk program is a music file browser with the following features:
You need gmod for playing MOD files and mp for playing MIDI
files (you can change the source to use another program).
It is written and copyrighted by Shannon Hendrix (
shendrix@pcs.cnu.edu or
shendrix@escape.widomaker.com).
It can be found at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/tmusic-1.0.tar.gz.