View source for ALSA Audio

== Introduction ==

This redundant title refers to the Advance Linux Sound Architecture. It is included with Debian-based distros. Not so much Fedora/RedHat/CentOS.

Beware confusion! Many of the links below go to the "Unofficial ALSA Wiki" which looks very much like this one! Minus my scowling puss.

=== Documentation Links ===
* Beginner overview with some good observations (9/17/2011) http://www.seehuhn.de/pages/alsa
* A generic "How To" - reader beware circa 1999 - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Alsa-sound.html

=== ALSA Utils ===
The package ''alsa-utils'' contains a number of utilities (see unofficial http://alsa.opensrc.org/Alsa-utils)

* [http://alsa.opensrc.org/Alsamixer alsamixer] - This curses-based terminal program has proven to be useful in production for quickly tweaking levels.
* [http://alsa.opensrc.org/Amixer amixer] - This allows setting capture, among other important things!
<pre>Use: amixer sset Capture cap
     amixer sset Capture nocap
mute/unmute keywords are parsed only for playback</pre>

== See Also ==
*[[Jack]]
*[[Raspberry Pi ALSA]]
*[[Liquidsoap]]