This library provides decoding and encoding of audio on a playlist. It is intended to be used as a backend for music player applications. That said, it is also generic enough to be used as a backend for any streaming audio processing utility.
- Uses ffmpeg for robust decoding and encoding. See supported file formats and codecs.
- Add and remove entries on a playlist for gapless playback.
- Supports idempotent pause, play, and seek.
- Per-playlist-item gain adjustment so you can implement loudness compensation without audio glitches.
- Read and write metadata tags.
- Choose between smooth mode and exact mode during playback.
- smooth mode - open the audio device once and resample everything to fit that sample rate and format.
- exact mode - open and close the audio device as necessary in effort to open the audio device with parameters matching the incoming audio data.
- Extensible sink-based interface. A sink provides resampling and keeps its
buffer full. Types of sinks:
- raw sink - Provides reference-counted raw audio buffers you can do whatever you like with. For example a real-time audio visualization. All other sink types are built on top of this one.
- player sink - Sends frames to a sound device.
- encoder sink - Provides encoded audio buffers. For example, you could use this to create an HTTP audio stream.
- loudness scanner sink - Uses the EBU R 128 standard to detect loudness. The values it produces are compatible with the ReplayGain specification.
- fingerprint sink - Uses chromaprint to generate unique song IDs that can be used with the acoustid service.
- waveform sink - Generates a visual representation of a song.
- Example programs included:
playlist- Play a series of songs with gapless playback.metadata- Read or update song metadata.replaygain- Report the suggested replaygain for a set of files.transcode- Transcode one or more files into one output file.fingerprint- Generate acoustid fingerprints for one or more files.metadata_checksum- Read or update song metadata. This program scans the audio of the file before the metadata change, changes the metadata in a temporary file, scans the audio of the temporary file to make sure it matches the original, and then atomically renames the temporary file over the original file.
Dependencies:
- cmake >= 2.8.5
- ffmpeg >= 3.0
- suggested flags:
--enable-shared --disable-static --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-gpl
- suggested flags:
- libebur128
- make sure it is compiled with the speex dependency so that true peak functions are available.
- libsoundio
- libchromaprint-dev
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
Join #libgroove on irc.freenode.org and ask questions.
To build the documentation:
make doc
Feel free to make a pull request adding yours to this list.
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