On 04/12/2011 06:30 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
I just dug up my old wav.d and quickly added wav.play() support
to it for both Windows and Linux. Now, this is sucky D1 code,
but hey, it works, and it's short. If there's interest, I can
port to D2 and add some range support to it and see about fleshing
it out.
http://arsdnet.net/dcode/wav.d
Again, this is D1, so be sure to use an appropriate compiler. It's
dependency free (even on Linux - the only calls it makes are to the
kernel for open, write, close, and ioctl. It uses the OSS /dev/dsp
method.
BTW, yes, I know OSS is deprecated. Fuck that noise, ALSA is a piece
of shit and who the hell even knows what's going on anymore beyond it.
Seems like every time I turn around there's another half assed new
Linux audio stack. What the damn son.
OSS is technically superior and *infinitely* easier to use. If I
decide to post my MIDI code, you'll see what I mean - it uses ALSA
and takes like 100 lines to do the simplest thing. The Windows
version of midi, using the *low level* functions was about ten lines
long...
Besides OSS works on just about any unix, so it's more cross platform
too. So yeah, I'm sticking to it for any kind of simple audio module.)
An excellent article on the topic:
http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html
(many other articles by the author are very good)
Also, OSS has been free software again for 4 years already. And yes, ALSA is
plain shift both for the developper & the user; and its propaganda is bullshit.
Use OSS! and let it be known this is the only right choice available for
efficient, simple, and portable sound apps...
Denis
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