ALSA User Info

2008-03-03T14:20:11Z

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Congratulations!

You are new to ALSA and want to know more about it's features and skills? Or you are already using ALSA and want to know more about it and get some references?

This is the page for you!

== Tutorials ==
The [http://lau.linuxaudio.org/ Linux Audio Users Guide] provides a quick reference point to many useful documents, tutorials, links and a professional support database for Linux audio.

You may want to take a look at the [http://alsa.opensrc.org/ unofficial ALSA Wiki] too.

== Packages ==
=== ALSA utils ===
The '''ALSA utils''' are a collection of small and often extremely powerful applications designed to allow users to control the various parts of the ALSA system.
* The <tt>alsactl</tt> application is a way to save settings for your device.
* The <tt>amixer</tt> application is a command line app which allows adjustments to be made to a devices volume and sound controls.
* The <tt>alsamixer</tt> application is an ncurses version of <tt>amixer</tt>.
* The <tt>acconnect</tt> and <tt>aseqview</tt> applications are for making MIDI connections and viewing the list of connected ports.
* The <tt>aplay</tt> and <tt>arecord</tt> applications are for commandline playback and recording of a number of file types including raw, wave and aiff at all the sample rates, bitdepths and channel counts known to the ALSA library.

=== ALSA tools ===
There are a number of applications in the '''ALSA tools''' package. They range from <tt>envy24control</tt> which provides complete control over all devices with an [[Matrix:Module-ice1712|envy24]] chip, to firmware loaders for pcmcia, USB and the hdsp devices.
There is also the <tt>hdspmixer</tt> application which is a carbon copy of the totalmix application for Windows and Mac OS platforms.

To use them you need to build and install them separately. Make sure you read the README and INSTALL
files for usage instructions.

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