Is Sox a good choice as the backend for a Music Player?

Is Sox a good choice as the backend for a Music Player?

[Joshua Hartwell]

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Hi all:

I have written a cross-platform music player. (http://hypnosplayer.org). It
current relies upon VLC to do its audio-decoding, but I have some issues
there and I don't like using a library that's so heavy to decode audio.

I came across Sox as a potential suitable replacement, but I have no
familiarity with the project. Do you think it could be a good backend for
this project?

Thanks!

Josh Hartwell

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Re: Is Sox a good choice as the backend for a Music Player?

[Eric Wong]

Joshua Hartwell <jhartwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I came across Sox as a potential suitable replacement, but I have no
> familiarity with the project. Do you think it could be a good backend for
> this project?

I use it for dtas (duct-tape audio suite) which includes dtas-player
and it's great (gapless playback, lots of formats and effects
with live-EQ/compander/any-other-effects-supported-by-sox-or-ladspa):

	git clone https://80x24.org/dtas.git

It's heavily-dependent on *nix pipes and process management,
though.  I assume libsox is nice for cross-platform use, too;
since the sox(1) command uses it.  But I prefer to do my
work in scripting languages rather than C whenever possible.


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Re: Is Sox a good choice as the backend for a Music Player?

[Thomas Förster]

Hi Josh,

my recommendation: Go for it! It is a better way for audio than VLC. If 
you are interested in a more special way of "pure" audio, use a 
cross-plattform realtime project like rtaudio:
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtaudio/

Regards
Thomas


> Am 2018-12-17 00:34, schrieb Joshua Hartwell:
>> Hi all:
>> 
>> I have written a cross-platform music player. (http://hypnosplayer.org
>> [1]). It current relies upon VLC to do its audio-decoding, but I have
>> some issues there and I don't like using a library that's so heavy to
>> decode audio.
>> 
>> I came across Sox as a potential suitable replacement, but I have no
>> familiarity with the project. Do you think it could be a good backend
>> for this project?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Josh Hartwell
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] http://hypnosplayer.org
>> 
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>> Sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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