On most systems, sound will be kept under:
/usr/share/sounds
They are put under share because that is where arch independent files used by applications should be put.
You can also create ~/share/sounds for you favorite sounds.
A good technique is to define an alias as:
alias playa='paplay ~/share/sounds/alert.ogg' # play Alert
so you can play it after commands end:
sleep 2 && playa
If you want to have some real good fun try:
find /usr/share/sounds -type f -iname '*.ogg' | sort | xargs -I'{}' play '{}'
Pulse Audio play.
Comes by default on Ubuntu 12.04.
Play file once and exit:
play a.wav
Terminates when over. Good option to play an alarm signal after a very long command:
sleep 5 && play ~/share/sounds/alert.*
ALSA player.
Comes with Ubuntu 12.04, but did not work very well.
SoX package. Similar to paplay.
Play .raw file:
play -b 16 -c 1 --endian big -e unsigned -r 44100 in.raw
ncurses CLI.
Has a file browser.
cplay
Encode, decode and modify MP3.
Increases volume 5x:
lame --scale 5 a.mp3
WAV to MP3:
lame a.wav a.mp3
Get id3 tags info (for MP3 for example):
TITLE="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Song Title:' | awk '{ for (i=3;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
ARTIST="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Artist:' | awk '{ for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
ALBUM="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Album:' | awk '{ for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
YEAR="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Year:' | awk '{ for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { printf $i; printf " " } }'`"
TRACKNUM="`id3tool "$1" | grep '^Year:' | awk '{ print $2 }'`"
install -D "$1" /music/mp3/"$ARTIST-$ALBUM-$YEAR"/"$TRACKNUM-$ARTIST-$TITLE".mp3
GUI.
Single APE and CUE in dir, FLAC output, formatted as number - author - track
shntool split -f *.cue -o flac -t '%n - %p - %t' *.ape
You need the mac CLI tool to do this, and the easiest way to get it is with:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:flacon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y flacon
See also:
- http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/165485/why-can-i-not-split-a-ape-file
- http://superuser.com/questions/251362/split-monkeyaudio-ape-cue-log-of-whole-audio-cd-into-mp3-of-individual
Set of utilities record, play and modify files via CLI.
Interactive front end for libSoX.
Must install available formats separately.
Record from microphone into a.wav file:
rec a.wav
ctrl+c to stop recording.
Advanced Linux Sound API.
Replaced OSS in 2008 when OSS when went proprietary. OSS came back to open source, but it lost much momentum.
The kernel sound subsystem is called ALSA.
There are a few tools that interact with it.
ncurses interface to view/control sound parameters
alsamixer
Commands:
- left/right : change active parameter
- up/down : change active parameter value
CLI for sound control.
View available controls:
amixer scontrols
Set master volume to 50%:
amixer sset 'Master' 50%
Unmute sound:
amixer -D pulse set Master 1+ unmute
Command line tool that takes numeric input from stdin and generate sound.
Vs alsa:
Command line control to PulseAudio.
Rip from DVD:
abcde
Automatically finds right configurations on most systems.
Creates dir in cur dir and saves rip out as .ogg (Vorbis) in it.
Text to speech.
sudo aptitude install libttspico-utils
Say "hello world":
pico2wave -w a.wav "hello world"
"hello world" is not a filename! It is the actual input! There seems to be no way to get input from files or stdin.