WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless,
high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the
technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new version
4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled
performance and functionality.
In the default lossless mode WavPack acts just like a WinZip compressor for
audio files. However, unlike MP3 or WMA encoding which can affect the sound
quality, not a single bit of the original information is lost, so there's no
chance of degradation. This makes lossless mode ideal for archiving audio
material or any other situation where quality is paramount. The compression
ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%
(generally lower for typical popular music and somewhat better for classical
music and other sources with greater dynamic range).
The hybrid mode provides all the advantages of lossless compression with an
additional bonus. Instead of creating a single file, this mode creates both
a relatively small, high-quality lossy file that can be used all by itself,
and a "correction" file that (when combined with the lossy file) provides
full lossless restoration. For some users this means never having to choose
between lossless and lossy compression!
WMalbum is a dock applet that displays album covers for songs being
played by XMMS. You must already have images of the album covers stored
near the file being played. WMAlbum provides a handy circular menu
for play/skip/etc, and can replace wmxmms. Although dock applets are
designed for the WindowMaker window manager, they also work in other
window managers including openbox and blackbox.
Csound is a programming language designed and optimized for sound
rendering and signal processing. The language consists of over 450
opcodes - the operational codes that the sound designer uses to build
"instruments" or patches.
Although there are an increasing number of graphical "front-ends" for
the language, you typically design and modify your patches using a word
processor. Usually, you create two text files - a .orc (orchestra) file
containing the "instruments," and a .sco (score) file containing the
"notes."
In Csound, the complexity of your patches is limited by your knowledge,
interest, and need, but never by the language itself. For instance, a
22,050 oscillator additive synthesizer with 1024 stage envelope
generators on each is merely a copy-and-paste operation. The same goes
for a 1 million voice granular texture!
Have you ever dreamed of sounds such as these? Well in Csound you can.
And in Csound these dreams can come true!
This is an XMMS Plugin which sends the Playlist data to
audioscrobbler.com
This package includes two programs for adjusting sound mixers: xmixer, which
uses the Athena toolkit, and xgmixer, based on GTK+. From the README:
Features:
* For every device which is supported by the sound card you can
change the volume via a slider. Unsupported devices are not shown.
* Select the input device(s) for recording.
* On startup a configuration file is read which restores device
settings.
* With a menu option you can save the current settings for the next
start up.
* Hide devices which you don't want to see.
* Batch support - just read and evaluate the settings in the
configuration file.
xmms-gbsplay is a XMMS input plugin which emulates the sound hardware of the
Nintendo Game Boy(TM). It is able to play the sounds from a Game Boy(TM)
module dump (.GBS format) in XMMS.
FAAD2 (Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder) is an MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AAC decoder.
FAAD2 is the fastest ISO AAC audio decoder available and can be used with
DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), and supports HE (High Efficiency), Main,
LC, LD, LTP, PS (Parametric Stereo) AAC files.
This is an XMMS plugin for playing MPEG-4 AAC files.
The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player
supports over 80 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari,
Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC.
xoscope is a digital oscilloscope using input from a sound card or EsounD
and/or a ProbeScope/osziFOX and will soon support Bitscope hardware.
Includes 8 signal displays, variable time scale, math, memory, measurements,
and file save/load.
ZynAddSubFX is a opensource software synthesizer capable of making
a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from
expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you'll boost to an
amazing universe of sounds.