# Applications Supporting Sound

Because The Linux Sound User's Guide describes the available Linux applications in detail, I will only give here a sample of the types of applications that you likely want if you have a sound card under Linux.

As a minimum, you will likely want to obtain the following sound applications:

- audio file format conversion utility (e.g. `Sox`)
- mixer utility (e.g. `aumix` or `xmix`)
- digitized file player/recorder (e.g. `play`)
- MOD file player (e.g. `tracker`)
- MIDI file player (e.g. `mp`)

There are text-based as well as GUI-based versions of most of these tools. There are also some more esoteric applications (e.g. speech synthesis) that you may wish to try.