Free audio drivers software for linux

Audio Transcriber records large audio samples, like a tape or radio broadcast, to your hard drive and splits it into tracks to be burned onto CD-R media.

The goal of Audio Transcriber is to make it easy to transfer audio tapes, LPs, or radio broadcasts to tracks on CD-R/CD-RW.

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts. The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer components of audio hardware.
It also includes a fully-featured kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins, PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management.
Main features:
- Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer soundcards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
- Fully modularized sound drivers.
- SMP and thread-safe design.
- User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
- Support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.

MDF audio extracter project is a tool to extract audio data from MDF/MDS audio cd images to wav or raw files. Tracks will be extracted to the current directory and named track_[num].wav or track_[num].raw. Output can also be redirected to stdout to allow the audio data to be fed to an encoder or player directly.
You need both a .mds and .mdf file to be able to extract tracks. The .mds file contains the information about the tracks, while the .mdf file contains the actual data. They usually should have the same name (except for the extension ofcourse). This is case sensitive, so for example FileName is not the same as filename.
Usage: mdfextract [options] file.mds
Options:
-i output mds info instead of extracting
-r extract raw track data
-s output to stdout instead of file
-t < num > extract single track (num > 0)
-q quiet, no output
Version restrictions:
- Probably does not work on big endian archs.

Audio::File is a audio file abstraction library.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::File;
my $file = Audio::File->new( "foo.bar" );

print "The ". $file->type() ."-file ". $file->name
." is ". int $file->length() ." seconds long.n";

print "Its interpreted by ". $file->tag->artist()
." and called ". $file->tag->title() ".n";

Audio::File abstracts a single audio file, independant of its format. Using this module you can access a files meta-info like title, album, etc. as well as the files audio-properties like its length and bitrate.

Currently only the formats flac, ogg vorbis and mp3 are supported, but support for other formats may be easily added.

Emulex Linux Drivers package provides the sources for Emulexs LPFC (LightPulse Fibre Channel) family of HBAs. The source base is developed and tested specifically for the 2.6 Linux kernel.
This Emulex driver is derived from Emulexs currently shipping driver which supports several application and storage providers.
Intentions:
Emulex will be working with the open source community with the intention of achieving acceptance of this source into the upstream kernel.
Emulex will also continue to work with application and storage provider partners, many of whom are active members of the open source community, to evolve the code base to meet both upstream kernel and continuing business needs.
Enhancements:
- Miscellaneous Cleanups
- Correct some 8bit to 16bit field conversions/comparisons
- Fixes for short cable pulls
- Adjust use of scsi_block_requests and interaction w/ FC transport
- Remove locking wrappers around error handlers
- Fixes to error handlers
- Add support for more members of the Light Pulse 11xxx (4Gb) family
- Bring model descriptions in sync with Emulex standard generic names.
- Add polled-mode support to the driver:
- Added code to adjust lun queue depth to avoid target overloading.

Perl Audio Converter (PAC) is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Shorten, Monkey Audio, FAAC (AAC/M4A/MP4), Musepack (MPC), Wavpack (WV), OptimFrog (OFR/OFS), TTA, LPAC, Kexis (KXS), AIFF, AC3, Lossless Audio (LA), AU, SND, RAW, VOC, SMP, RealAudio (RA/RAM), WAV, and WMA.
It can also convert audio from the following video formats/extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, VOB, and WMV. A CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch and playlist conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing, and extensions for Konqueror and amaroK is also provided.
Enhancements:
- Added: MP4::Info dependency IO::String to pacpl-install
- Updated: License GPLv3
- Bug Fix: Directory conversions. pacpl was claiming the directory was empty and prompting to use the --recursive option...Thanks to John Meyer for the report.

Audio::Ao is a Perl wrapper for the Ao audio library.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Ao qw(:all);

initialize_ao;
my $device = open_live(default_driver_id(), 16, $rate, $channels,
is_big_endian(), {});
while (#have data) {
play($device, $data_buffer, $len_of_buffer);
}
close_ao($device($device));
shutdown_ao;

Provides access to Libao, "a cross-platform library that allows programs to output PCM audio data to the native audio devices on a wide variety of platforms." Libao currently supports OSS, ESD, ALSA, Sun audio, and aRts.

Audio::DB are tools for generating relational databases of MP3s.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::DB;
my $mp3 = Audio::DB->new(-user =>user,
-pass =>password,
-host =>db_host,
-dsn =>music_db,
-adaptor => mysql);

$mp3->initialize(1);

$mp3->load_database(-dirs =>[/path/to/MP3s/],
-tmp =>/tmp);

Audio::DB is a module for creating relational databases of MP3 files directly from data stored in ID3 tags or from flatfiles of information of track information. Once created, Audio::DB provides various methods for creating reports and web pages of your collection.

Although its nutritious and delicious on its own, Audio::DB was created for use with Apache::Audio::DB, a subclass of Apache::MP3. This module makes it easy to make your collection web-accessible, complete with browsing, searching, streaming, multiple users, playlists, ratings, and more!