Re: [SoX-users] Sun Audio install?

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:21:48AM -0800, n_m wrote:
> 
> I'm on a quest to install SoX with as many codecs, etc on a Linux box as I
> can.
> 
> There is an obvious relation of Sun Audio to Sun hardware, but in the 
> interest of building a complete file translation service,  can the sun
> libraries 
> be built on other architectures?
> 
> My recollection is that Sun audio files are labeled as .ao. I have installed
> libao. Is that enough?

Sun audio files are labeled .au, not .ao.  Support for them is included
on all platforms that SoX compiles on with no external libraries
required.

Support for playing/recording to a Sun /dev/audio device is only 
compiled in on limited platforms where the deviece is detected.

Libao is also a driver for playing/recording and is optional since
we have native drivers for most Unix-like platforms except MacOS.

Chris