| libsndfile | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Erik de Castro Lopo |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Sound library |
| License | LGPL-2.1-or-later |
| Website | libsndfile |
libsndfile is a widely used [2] [3] C library written by Erik de Castro Lopo for reading and writing audio files. [4] It supports a wide variety of audio file formats and will convert automatically from one to another. [4] It allows the programmer to ignore many details, such as endianness.
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In addition to the library itself, the package provides command-line programs for converting one format to another (sndfile-convert), for playing audio files (sndfile-play), and for obtaining information about the contents of an audio file (sndfile-info).
libsndfile is available for Unix-like systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, and for Microsoft Windows. [4] It is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later. [4]
libsndfile is used, for example, by audio-editing software such as Audacity and Adobe Audition [3] and the MP3 encoder LAME. [5]
