The soundtool Program

The soundtool program is a GUI tool for recording, playing and modifying u-law audio files (compressed audio files).

The following shows the command-line syntax for the soundtool example:

hostname% soundtool [-D device]

The following figure shows the soundtool demonstration program display.

Figure 4-1 soundtool Display

soundtool is one of the demonstration programs that is distributed in the SUNWaudmo package. It is typically installed into /usr/demo/SOUND/src/soundtool/. soundtool uses the libaudio audio library and a few system calls (such as open/close, read/write, ioctl and fcntl) to operate on Sun standard hardware and audio devices. The source for the soundtool demonstration distributed with SunVideo Plus software is installed in the example subdirectory of O1KHOME (usually /opt/SUNWo1kp/examples/soundtool).