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= Introduction =<br />
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The idea of the Sydney audio API is to have a powerful, but easy to use cross-platform API for PCM audio capture and playback. So it would sit right on top of ALSA, pulseaudio, OSS, ... and abstract away all hardware-related complexity (e.g. having to check whether a card supports XYZ on ALSA before using it).<br />
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The API was named after the location of<br />
[http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2007/pmwiki.php/Main/CommunityGoals FOMS2007], which was held in Sydney, Australia.<br />
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= Implementations =<br />
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* http://svn.annodex.net/libsydneyaudio/trunk This is a lightweight implementation used by Mozilla Firefox<br />
* http://git.0pointer.de/repos/libsydney.git/ Lennart Poettering's implementation<br />
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There is talk of merging these implementations. Alternatively, they can be considered as drop-in replacements for each<br />
other depending on platform needs.</div>Conrad