Audio Components Suite (ACS)

ACS is an freeware crossplatform set of components designed to perform 
different sound-processing tasks. It supports reading the audio data from CD, 
different fileformats- wav, mp3, wma, ogg, mac and others, output to soundcard 
and files are sure also possible. Between input and output you can work with 
the data, different converters, mixers and processors are available.

Main characteristics are:
* Abstract Layer to include different "drivers"
  * Alsa, /dev/dsp, AOLive, OSS support within linux
  * DirectX, Wavemapper support within Windows
  * Audio playback and capture
  * Simultaneous operations on the same or different devices are allowed.
* Abstract Layer to make it easy to add new fileformats; already included
  fileformats:
  * Wave files/streams support, Raw PCM, MS ADPCM, DVI IMA ADPCM support
  * MP3 format support : Encode mp3 files using LAME, mp3 playback with 
    smpeg library, streams conversion using MAD decoder
  * Ogg Vorbis format support : Reading Ogg files/streams (including m
    ulti-streamed ones). Storing data in Ogg Vorbis format with wide range 
    of settings for compression/quality tweaks. Ogg comments support
  * FLAC format support : Reading FLAC files/streams, storing data in FLAC 
    format with wide range of settings for compressiontweaks.
  * Monkey Audio format support (for Windows only)
  * CD-ROM playback and direct CDDA data capture
  * Append data to existing file/stream capability
* AudioMixer component for mixing/concatenating audio streams
* InputList component for building dynamically playback/input lists
* Set of audio converter components
  * Sample converter for bits per sample conversion.
  * Sample rate converter (resampler) using sinc filtering
  * Mono/Stereo converter
  * Stereo balance control
  * Sound indicator
  * Windowed sinc and Butterworth filters for changing audio spectrum
  * Convolver component for applying custom sound effects
* Mixer component to use mixer devices


Audio Components Suite v 2.3
Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Andrei Borovsky.
You can contact me at acs@compiler4.net

You can get the package sources at
Audio Components Suite home page 
http://www.compiler4.net/acs
NOTE: These components require Delphi 6 or above (has been tested on Delphi 6, 7, 2005)
or Kylix 2+.
See "installation" file on how to install ACS.
See "license" file for licesing information.