3. Other useful sound utilities

This section has nothing to do with the actual playing of sound files. Rather, it is a collection of some sound utilities that one might find useful.

3.1 volume

This is a simple command line interface for controlling the volume. It also has a separate Tcl/Tk interface included in the package for controlling the volume and playing .au sound files.

It is very useful for people who don't have hardware volume control, don't want to pump in extra electricity for the external amplifiers (which might degrade the sound output, unless you have a good one), don't have much need for really loud sounds, and want a convenient command line interface (I'm a command line geek) for controlling the volume.

This is Freeware and it is written by Sam Lantinga ( slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu).

It can be found at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/volume-1.1.tgz.

3.2 setmixer

This is a command line mixer control program.

The author is Michal Jaegermann ( michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca).

3.3 Tickle Music

This beta Tcl/Tk program is a music file browser with the following features:

• Allows playing MIDI, MOD, Screamtracker, and various other formats of music files
• Has an easy file/directory browser for scanning your music files
• Allows you to build up a queue of files to play, with different file types mixed together
• Allows some minor queue editing, mostly just removing files from the queue

You need gmod for playing MOD files and mp for playing MIDI files (you can change the source to use another program).

It is written and copyrighted by Shannon Hendrix ( shendrix@pcs.cnu.edu or shendrix@escape.widomaker.com).

It can be found at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/tmusic-1.0.tar.gz.