The libao package contains a cross-platform audio library. This is useful to output audio on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports WAV files, OSS (Open Sound System), ESD (Enlighten Sound Daemon), ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), NAS (Network Audio system), aRTS (analog Real-Time Synthesizer), and PulseAudio (next generation GNOME sound architecture).
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a graphical environment, alsa-lib-1.2.12, and PulseAudio-17.0
First, fix a gcc-14 issue:
sed -i '/limits.h/a #include <time.h>' src/plugins/pulse/ao_pulse.c
Install libao by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install && install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/libao-1.2.0
Currently, the only configuration option available is setting the default output device. Issue man libao.conf for details.