TinyALSA

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.

Building

TinyALSA supports these build systems:

• CMake
• Make
• Meson
• Soong for Android

To build and install with Make, run the commands:

make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Installing

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

Documentation

Once installed, the man pages are available via:

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