How to use Tritonus

Can Tritonus be useful for you? This page is trying to give an idea.

There are several situations where Tritonus can be useful for you. Typical situations are:

• You are implementing a Java VM or Java class library. In this case, you may want to use Tritonus as complete implementation of the Java Sound API. Read on below under 'Implementor'.
• You are a user of a Java runtime with Java Sound implementation. In this case, you may want to use parts of Tritonus to augment your Java runtime. The components you can use depend on the operating system you are running. Tritonus emerged as a Java Sound implementation for Linux. This is why most parts that require support by a native library are Linux-specific (some can be used on other UNIX-style operating systems). If you are running Linux or another variant of UNIX, read on below under 'Linux user'. On the other hand, there are components that are implemented in pure Java. Obviously, these can be used on any operating system. If you are running an operating system different from UNIX-like ones (especially Windows), read on below under 'Java user'

Implementor

You can (and we appreciate this) adopt Tritonus in your clean room implementation of Java. kaffe has already done this.

The licence Tritonus uses is the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). If you think this doesn't fit, we can discuss the license issue. It is not totally excluded to change the license or to double-license Tritonus. However, since changing a license has many implications and requires much consideration, it is quite unlikely. In case the license of Tritonus is changed, it is highly likely that we will adopt a more open one, not a more restrictive one.

If you want to use Tritonus in your implementation, write a mail to tritonus-devel

Linux user (including UNIX)

Obviously, you can use the components named below under 'Java user'. Additionally, you can use these components:

• CDDA extraction. The implementation is based on libcdparanoia, the working hourse of cdparanoia. So the component should work on any system that has (a moderately recent version of) cdparanoia. Precompiled binaries are available for Linux x86.
• Esd Mixer. This is the implementation of a MixerProvider based on Esound, the Enlightened Sound Daemon. It doesn't give you much advantage over common JDK implementation besides that it allows you to share the audio device. The component should work on any system that has Esound. Precompiled binaries are available for Linux x86.
• ALSA Mixer and Sequencer. This is an implementation of a MixerProvider and and MidiDeviceProvider. It is recommanded if you want high-performance audio or MIDI. Especially, you can use this mixer to get full-duplex support and MIDI in/out plus a very stable sequencer. Since ALSA is only available for Linux, this component is Linux-specific. Precompiled binaries are available for Linux x86.

To get more information and download the components, go to Plug-ins

Java user (including Windows)

Sorry, no alternative mixer implementation for Windows here. However, you can use the following components implemented in pure Java:

• GSM06.10 codec
• AudioOutputStream architecture
• Ogg Vorbis decoder (under development)
• mp3 decoder (has severe legal problems, and Vorbis is better)

To get more information and download the components, go to Plug-ins