System Architecture: All/General
RedHat Release: All/General
FAQ Category: Sound and Music
Modification Date: Oct 20, 1998

Question:

What are some good music and sound apps?  Where can I find more info?

Answer:

For playing CD-ROMS:
  xplaycd -- X windows interface, quite nice application
  cdp     -- command line player
  cdtool  -- command line player, includes ability to be used as a daemon,
             program to shuffle play, and ability to query the cddb database
             to get track/program listings for a disc.
  MANY MORE (Java, X-based, workman, workbone, etc.)

Most of these are available in RPM format, if not, you may have
to find the tarball and make them....  Some are provided with RedHat
5.x on the CD-ROM, or are in the contrib directory at ftp.redhat.com.

For converting sound files:
  SOX     -- this allows you to convert to/from MANY sound formats

For playing midi files:
  playmidi -- ability to play midi files and with playmidi-X11, provides
              a nice X interface

For playing sound clips:
  playcdda -- part of xcdroast -- plays CD-ROM redbook (audio) files
  vplay    -- old wave file player
  maplay   -- play MPEG audio files
  rvplayer -- play .RA and .RAM Real-Audio files
  play     -- /usr/bin/play, comes with SOX

For editing/recording sound
  vrec       -- link to vplay
  multitrack -- multitrack audio player, recorder, spectrum analyzer,
                guitar tuner, and real cool program
  xwave      -- clone of Win 3.1 WAVE player (not too stable)
  
Mixer:
  mixer      -- command line mixer 
  xmixer     -- X-based mixer

Misc:
  dtmfdial   -- generated DTMF tones
  multimon   -- decode DTMF tones, FSK, etc.
  tune       -- tuner program
  rsynth     -- text to speech converter 
  

References:

Sound-HOWTO
Sound-Playing-HOWTO
http://www.opensound.com
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound