Description:

AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded
and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit.
Features include:

Input addons:
- MP2 and MP3 support
- Ogg Vorbis support (subpackage)
- WAV support, 8-, 16-bit, mono, stereo, any sample rate
- CDDA support, CD Digital Audio playback! and thus USB ready :)
- Also plays files mapped by audiofs (CDDA)
- MAD MPEG audio
- Module support (mikmod) (subpcakage)

Output addons:
- ALSA. Best supported of course :) (subpackage)
- OSS. Kernel native sound drivers
- Sparc. UltraSparc sound drivers
- SGI. SGI audio library driver
- ESD. Enlightened sound daemon support (subpackage)
- NAS. Network Audio System (subpakcage)
- null :-)

Visual scopes:
- Stereoscope
- Monoscope
- Levelmeter
- Spacescope
- FFTscope
- FFTscope II
- More being developed...

General features:
- Full speed (pitch) control, positive *and* negative! (First Linux
player that does this!! MP3's and CD's do varispeed :)
- Queue (playlist) support
- Concurrent visual scopes (open as many as you want)
- Multi-threaded design for efficient/skip free playback (RT)
- GUI Interface based on gtk+
- NOGUI operation for shell script usage
- Plug-in core architecture
- Low latency mode, as low as 5ms when scheduled RT
- Effects stream
- Software based volume/pan control
- Accurate scope/audio syncing using ALSA features
- Portable (well, we'll see about that :)
- Open source(tm)