AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. The goal is to create a fully pluggable framework for playback of all sorts of media with the focus on PCM audio data. The core code was written by Andy Lo-A-Foe with contributions from many other folks. See the credits files for details.

AlsaPlayer have some unique features, but it is quite outdated. Amoung other things, the resampling quality is not so good, more sound formats can be added, and it is a lot of warnings with the last gcc version.

AlsaPlayer Main Features:
1. Full speed (pitch) control, positive *and* negative!
This is the first Linux and only GPL player that supports this. You can scratch mp3's and even audio CD's in realtime.
2. Icecast/shoutcast streaming support
3. Interface plugins
Completely redefine the user interface
4. Remote control
Control alsaplayer from another application
5. Low latency mode
On capable soundcards latency can be as low as 1.3ms!
6. Playlist/Queue support
7. Plays nice with concurrent audio tools
Doesn't touch the hardware mixer
8. Concurrent visual scopes
Open as many scopes as there are.
9. Multi-threaded design
This results in efficient/skip free playback. You can also activate real-time scheduling for even better performance.
10. Accurate scope/audio syncing
11. Portable

Supported file formats
1. Ogg Vorbis files (.ogg)
2. First player worldwide that did perfect reverse Ogg playback! hehe :)
3. MP3 files using MADMP3 audio files using the mpg123 based plugin
4. WAV files
5. CDDA, CD Digital Audio playback (digital ripping), with CDDB lookup
6. All MODULES supported by MikMod
7. All file types supported by the Audio File Library
8. FLAC files. A lossless compression scheme.

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this music&mp3 player software.