TinyALSA – Tiny library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel

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TinyALSA is a small library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel.

The aims are:

  • Provide a basic pcm and mixer API.
  • If it's not absolutely needed, don't add it to the API.
  • Avoid supporting complex and unnecessary operations, that could be dealt with at a higher level.
  • Provide comprehensive documentation.

TinyALSA supports these build systems:

To build and install with Make, run the commands:

make sudo make install sudo ldconfig

TinyALSA is now available as a set of the following Debian packages from launchpad:

Package Name: Description:
tinyalsa Contains tinyplay, tinycap, tinymix and tinypcminfo
libtinyalsa Contains the shared library
libtinyalsa-dev Contains the static library and header files

To install these packages, run the commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:taylorcholberton/tinyalsa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tinyalsa sudo apt-get install libtinyalsa-dev

Once installed, the man pages are available via:

man tinyplay man tinycap man tinymix man tinypcminfo man libtinyalsa-pcm man libtinyalsa-mixer

To test libtinyalsa, please follow the instructions,

Setup Bazel build environment

Visit here to get more info to setup Bazel environment.

The test program does pcm_* operations on loopback devices. You have to insert loopback devices after your system boots up.

sudo modprobe snd-aloop sudo chmod 777 /dev/snd/*
bazel test //:tinyalsa_tests --test_output=all

The default playback device is hw:2,0 and the default capture device is hw:2,1. If your loopback devices are not hw:2,0 and hw:2,1, you can specify the loopback device.

bazel test //:tinyalsa_tests --test_output=all \ --copt=-DTEST_LOOPBACK_CARD=[loopback card] \ --copt=-DTEST_LOOPBACK_PLAYBACK_DEVICE=[loopback playback device] \ --copt=-DTEST_LOOPBACK_CAPTURE_DEVICE=[loopback capture device]
bazel coverage //:tinyalsa_tests --combined_report=lcov --test_output=all genhtml bazel-out/_coverage/_coverage_report.dat -o tinyalsa_tests_coverage
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