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History
Vsound was originally written by James Henstridge based on code
written by Manish Singh as part of the Enlightened
Sound Daemon package. The last version James released was
0.2, in May, 1999 (I am mirroring the original vsound 0.2 distribution
here). Here is the Freshmeat
announcement;
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"VSound is a sort of like a `virtual
audio loopback cable'. That is, it allows you to record
the output audio stream of a program (similar to connecting
a loopback cable to the line in and line out jacks on
the sound card, and recording the sound from the line
in jack, but without the DA/AD conversion losses). One
possible use for this application is as part of a RealAudio
to wav file converter." |
Work was then taken over by Erik
de Castro Lopo, who
on finding that it didn't work with the latest Realplayer G2
release fixed it and after being unable to contact James Henstridge
to submit a patch decided
to release a new version (0.3) himself.
Unfortunately
as of October 2002 Erik can no longer continue to make vsound
available from his web site due to the Australian Digital Agenda
Bill 2000 so in December 2002 I mirrored web page and source
code at http://www.zorg.org/vsound/.
Since then I have received a patch from Richard Taylor which
added the handy autostop feature, have fixed the resample option
and released Version 0.6
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