libsndfile

libsndfile
Developer(s) Erik de Castro Lopo
Stable release 1.0.25 / July 13, 2011 (2011-07-13)
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Sound library
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

libsndfile is a widely used[1][2] C library written by Erik de Castro Lopo for reading and writing audio files.[3] It supports a wide variety of audio file formats and will convert automatically from one to another.[3] It allows the programmer to ignore many details, such as endianness.

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 systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, and for Microsoft Windows.[3] It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.[4]

libsndfile is used, for example, by audio-editing software such as Audacity and Adobe Audition[2] and the MP3 encoder LAME.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/libsndfile/ten_years.html
  2. 1 2 Adobe Audition CS5.5 Third Party Legal Notices
  3. 1 2 3 libsndfile
  4. ↑ libsndfile Licensing
  5. ↑ LAME changelog

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