IcedTea-Sound 1.0.0 Released!

Wed Jul 30 14:23:20 UTC 2014

On 30 July 2014 15:54, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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.
>> >> >
>> >> >     PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/)
>> >> >     Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
>> >> >
>> >> > SHA256 checksums:
>> >> >
>> >> > 0d09bc9656f9125642f70bb322f8ec92ec0ae28fdd295e83c4ce3c7576e79bd3
>> >> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
>> >> > cb47dec753e4853ba8021a3b532631c2b751450d0d9d580c3ddce99fe8b4c7a9
>> >> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
>> >> > 29511d271cbb5259eac5dd48867e27d61ce4ce15026dc105277dbf1238333dbb
>> >> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
>> >> > c16cb29502d6edb16fb611b3d1ffbda199919f56afc8691a7dceee08b009b528
>> >> > 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 :)
>> >
>> > Free Java Software Engineer
>> > 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).
>
> Yes, it's additional support on top of OpenJDK. For example, in future, it
> may also include support for additional file formats beyond what OpenJDK provides.
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> I don't really follow. If you have IcedTea-Sound installed and on your classpath,
> it will be used:
>
> $ cat TestSoundProviders.java
> import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
> import javax.sound.sampled.Mixer;
>
> public class TestSoundProviders
> {
>   public static void main(String[] args)
>   {
>     Mixer.Info[] mixers = AudioSystem.getMixerInfo();
>     for (Mixer.Info mixerInfo : mixers)
>       {
>         System.err.println(mixerInfo.getName());
>       }
>   }
> }
>
> $ java TestSoundProviders
> Intel [default]
> Intel [plughw:0,0]
> Intel [plughw:0,1]
> HDMI [plughw:1,3]
> Port Intel [hw:0]
> Port HDMI [hw:1]
>
> $ java -cp /usr/share/icedtea-sound/icedtea-sound.jar:. TestSoundProviders
> PulseAudio Mixer
> Intel [default]
> Intel [plughw:0,0]
> Intel [plughw:0,1]
> HDMI [plughw:1,3]
> Port Intel [hw:0]
> Port HDMI [hw:1]
>
> --
> Andrew :)
>
> Free Java Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
>
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>

Excellent! Thanks both for these explanations.

> I don't really follow. If you have IcedTea-Sound installed and on your classpath,
> it will be used: […]
This is the part I missed! Ok, so it definitely makes sense for me to
include it in official repos for Arch Linux.

Thanks again,

Guillaume