libsndfile

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libsndfile
Developer(s) Erik de Castro Lopo
Stable release 1.0.20 / March 14, 2009; 10 month(s) ago (2009-03-14)
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] C library written by Erik de Castro Lopo for reading and writing audio files[2]. It supports a wide variety of audio encodings and sound file formats and will convert automatically from one to another[2]. 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[2]. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License[3].

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  1. ^ http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/libsndfile/ten_years.html
  2. ^ a b c libsndfile
  3. ^ libsndfile Licensing