IcedTea-Sound 1.0.0 Released!

[Guillaume Alaux]

On 28 July 2014 20:32, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 18 July 2014 23:21, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > We are pleased to announce the inaugural release of IcedTea-Sound.  At
>> > present, IcedTea-Sound contains the PulseAudio provider which was
>> > removed from IcedTea itself from 2.5.0 onwards. More providers may be
>> > included in the future.
>> >
>> > If you find an issue with the release, please report it to our bug
>> > database (http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla) under the
>> > IcedTea-Sound product and the appropriate component. Development
>> > discussion takes place on the distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net mailing
>> > list (as with IcedTea) and patches are always welcome.
>> >
>> > Full details of the release can be found below.
>> >
>> > What's New?
>> > ===========
>> > New in release 1.0.0 (2014-07-18):
>> >
>> > * PR1741: Break PulseAudio provider out into IcedTea-Sound
>> > * PR1840: Replace Makefile.am references to PULSE_JAVA with ICEDTEA_SOUND
>> > * PR1842: Linker does not check that symbols can be resolved for
>> > libpulse-java.so
>> > * PR1876: The following shared libraries lack a SONAME:
>> > /usr/lib64/libicedtea-sound.so
>> >
>> > The tarballs can be downloaded from:
>> >
>> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
>> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
>> >
>> > We provide both gzip and xz tarballs, so that those who are able to
>> > make use of the smaller tarball produced by xz may do so.
>> >
>> > The tarballs are accompanied by digital signatures available at:
>> >
>> > *
>> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
>> > *
>> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz.sig
>> >
>> > These are produced using my public key. See details below.
>> >
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>> >
>> > SHA256 checksums:
>> >
>> > 0d09bc9656f9125642f70bb322f8ec92ec0ae28fdd295e83c4ce3c7576e79bd3
>> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
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>> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
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>> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz.sig
>> >
>> > The checksums can be downloaded from:
>> >
>> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.sha256
>> >
>> > The following people helped with this release:
>> >
>> > * Andrew Hughes (all bug fixes, release management)
>> >
>> > We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!
>> >
>> > To get started:
>> >
>> > $ tar xzf icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
>> >
>> > or:
>> >
>> > $ tar x -I xz -f icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
>> >
>> > then:
>> >
>> > $ mkdir its-build
>> > $ cd its-build
>> > $ ../icedtea-sound-1.0.0/configure --prefix=${install_location}
>> > $ make
>> > $ make install
>> >
>> > where ${install_location} should be replaced by the prefix where you
>> > wish to install IcedTea-Sound (default is /usr/local). Depending on
>> > the prefix selected, the 'make install' step may need root privileges.
>> >
>> > Full build requirements and instructions are available in the INSTALL file.
>> >
>> > Happy hacking!
>> > --
>> > Andrew :)
>> >
>> > Free Java Software Engineer
>> > Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
>> >
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>>
>> Hello Andrew,
>>
>> I can't quite get the relation between icedtea-sound and an OpenJDK
>> built with Icedtea. It seems I don't need icedtea-sound for my Java
>> app to play sound: I tried tuxguitar [0] and this Oracle test app [1]
>> that are able to play sound even though I have an OpenJDK + Icedtea
>> 2.5.1 but **no** icedtea-sound installed.
>>
>> Complete version:
>>
>> java version "1.7.0_65"
>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.1) (Arch Linux build
>> 7.u65_2.5.1-5-x86_64)
>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode)
>>
>> Could you please let me know what I am missing here?
>>
>> [0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/
>> [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-139508.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Guillaume
>>
>
> No, you don't. IcedTea-Sound provides additional plugins (well, plugin
> at the moment, but more to come in future). It's what was --enable-pulse-java
> in IcedTea for many years, but we've split it out so there aren't multiple
> copies being maintained over multiple versions of IcedTea.
>
> The PulseAudio provider in IcedTea-Sound uses PulseAudio to play
> sound rather than ALSA, which is what the OpenJDK plugin does. I think,
> even back when it was in IcedTea, it would be disabled by default, unless
> explicitly enabled.
>
> Hope that helps,
> --
> Andrew :)
>
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> Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
>
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>

Hello Jon, Hello Andrew,

Thanks for this clarification.

So if I understand correctly, icedtea-sound is available – for
instance – to applications that would explicitly want to use
Pulseaudio (or, in the future, any other sound provider à la
Pulseaudio).

I am still a bit puzzled by why OpenJDK does not use it (totally naïve
question here)? Is it because it would create a dependency on
pulseaudio rather than Alsa? Or maybe there is already a way to make
OpenJDK+IcedTea use IcedTea-Sound?

Guillaume