libsndfile is a widely used
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/ref> It supports a wide variety of audio file format
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s and will convert automatically from one to another.endianness
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.
In addition to the library itself, the package provides command-line programs for converting one format to another (sndfile-convert), for playing audio files (sndfile-play), and for obtaining information about the contents of an audio file (sndfile-info).
libsndfile is available for Unix-like
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systems, including Linux
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and Mac OS X
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, and for Microsoft Windows
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.Adobe Audition
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Origins
Syntrillium Software was founded in the early 1 ...
[ and the ]MP3
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encoder LAME
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.LAME changelog
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See also
*AIFF AIFF may refer to:
* Audio Interchange File Format
* All India Football Federation, the national governing body of Association football in India
Film festivals
* Addis International Film Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* Alexandria Internation ...
*ExifTool
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utility for managing the metadata
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* Descriptive ...
in bitmap
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and audio files and also PDF
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files
*Pulse-code modulation
Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent analog signals. It is the standard form of digital audio in computers, compact discs, digital telephony and other digital audio applications. In a PCM stream, the amplitud ...
*WAV
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References
External links
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Fortran77 interfaceSecret Rabbit Code Sample Rate Converter
Audio libraries
C (programming language) libraries
Free audio codecs
Free computer libraries
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