ALSA and TinyAlsa

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Alsa

Introduction

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture(ALSA) is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original OpenSound System (OSSv3) for providing device drivers for sound cards. Besides thesound device drivers,ALSA also bundles a user space library forapplication developers who want to use driver features with a higher level APIthan direct interaction with the kernel drivers. In a word, the Advanced LinuxSound Architecture (ALSA) comes with a kernel API and a library API.

ALSA Features

ALSA was designed to use some featureswhich were not, at the time of its conception, supported by theOpen SoundSystem (OSS):

• Hardware-based MIDI synthesis.
• Hardware mixing of multiple channels.
• Full-duplex operation.
• Multiprocessor-friendly, thread-safe device drivers.

ALSA has a larger and more complex API than OSS, so it can be harder to develop anapplication that uses ALSA as its sound technology. While ALSA may beconfigured to provide an OSSemulation layer, such functionality is no longer available in many Linuxdistributions.

Besides the sound device drivers, ALSAbundles a user space