About

sansan is a real-time music playback library.

This library is for:

• Queue-based, real-time music playback
• Live audio state reading/writing without blocking
• Audio metadata reading (ID3/Vorbis tags)
• OS media control integration

This library is not:

• A general purpose audio playback library

sansan is built with music players in-mind - it is meant to be the part of the system that handles the real-time audio decoding/playback, while exposing an audio state read/write API that is non-blocking.

Although sansan can be used for general purpose audio playback, it does not include general purpose audio APIs like mixing, filters, multiple tracks, etc.

Documentation

The book at https://sansan.cat is the main user documentation. It holds all the information needed to get started with sansan - what things there are, what they do, how to use them.

The library documentation at https://docs.rs/sansan is the API reference, documenting inputs and outputs and other note-worthy things about the API, although, it does not contain detailed commentary on usage, how things work together, etc.

Example

For more example usage of sansan, see examples/.

This example shows some basic usage of sansan:

• Creating the Engine
• Adding music to the queue
• Sending signals to the Engine (play, next)
• Reading/writing live audio state without blocking

// TODO

Design

sansan's abstract design is documented in DESIGN.md.

This purpose of DESIGN.md is to act as a reference to allow for easier changes in the future.

Although, it mostly covers the system-wide view and does not include implementation details. For example, the real-time audio sample buffer - how big should it be?

These types of things are loosely defined in the code instead (with comments and reasoning) instead and within src/README.md - this document gives a more practical view on how sansan is organized, what files do what, where things are, why things do x instead of y, etc.

Audio Dependencies

This table summarizes the audio-specific libraries used by sansan and their purpose.

Dependency	Owner	Purpose
audio_thread_priority	Mozilla	Real-time audio thread promotion
cubeb	Mozilla	Audio device output
cpal	RustAudio	Audio device output
souvlaki	Sinono3	OS media control interface
symphonia	Pdeljanov	Audio demuxing/decoding/metadata
rubato	HEnquist	Audio resampling

Supported Targets

Only 64-bit targets (x86_64, ARM64, etc) are supported.

32-bit targets may work but are not tested on.

• Windows (WASAPI)
• macOS (CoreAudio)
• Linux (PulseAudio)

Supported Audio

sansan uses symphonia for audio decoding & metadata.

The supported audio codecs are:

• AAC-LC
• ADPCM
• ALAC
• FLAC
• MP1/MP2/MP3
• Vorbis
• Opus
• WavPack

The supported audio metadata formats are:

• ID3v1
• ID3v2
• ISO/MP4
• RIFF
• Vorbis comment (FLAC & OGG)

MSRV

The Minimum Supported Rust Version is 1.70.0.

License

sansan is licensed under the MIT License.

As of v0.0.0, sansan's dependency tree includes the following licenses:

• Apache-2.0
• BSD-2-Clause
• BSD-3-Clause
• ISC
• MIT
• MPL-2.0
• Unicode-DFS-2016