Java Audio Information Page

General Information
JAVAUDIO email list
Links to Infomation on Audio in Java
Links to Java Applications
Links to General Audio Information
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General Information

A resource for Java Programmers who work with audio.
A homepage for JAVAUDIO, a distributed email list providing a forum for discussions and distribution of information about audio in Java.

This web page and the JAVAUDIO email list is managed by Greg Sandell. His email address is sandell@sparky.parmly.luc.edu. Sorry this page looks so simple and crude right now. Hopefully it will improve with time.

Please email me to tell me about any links that you think should be here.

Documentation on the AudioClip class: Here's another one from the same website.
The sun.audio package: This documentation is found all over the net; this site happens to be one in Sweden. There are also some lesser known extensions to sun.audio.
A package called browser.audio: The same as sun.audio, but packaged inside the Hot Java browser
The book Java Secrets contains good introductory information on using sun.audio: (The link above is just an advertisement for the book)
The Javasoft pages about the Java Media Framework (JMF): A soon-to-be-released project that can be incorporated into JDK 1.1
JavaSound FAQ: JavaSound is a feature scheduled to be part of the Java 1.2 release
Advice from Peter Meijer on dealing with applet security and audio: The information is somewhat specific to his applet 'The vOICe' (see below), but it's userful. On the subject of security (which often comes up in audio situations) see this Java Security FAQ
An article from JavaWorld: Tips on using audio in Java

Jeff Poskanzer's ACME consulting company: See especially his SynthAudioClip class
SoundBite v1.0: Shareware Package. Audio Recording/Playback in Java using Native Methods
A Java utility for converting .WAV files to .AU files: This is found on the home page of a guy named Tony Hursha

Alu o'Neal Java Laboratories
Gamelan's pages devoted to Java audio
Digital Cat's Java Resource Center: applets relating to sound
Zerius, a consulting company: Programmer of music and audio applications. See the impressive Zerius synthesizer below

Zerius Synthesizer: Very sophisticated (for Java, that is) app for synthsizing sounds from scratch, using a MAX-like interface
Peter Meijer's "The vOICe"
Gabriele Bulfon's "PlayingWave": An implementation of a well-known method for synthesizing plucked string sounds (Karplus-Strong)

sox, a program that can convert between various soundfile formats.: The Sox home page is: http://www.spies.com/Sox/
The Audio file formats FAQ
A list of descriptions of various audio file formats, available in .zip format from the "Wotsit's File Format Collection"
A page of useful audio links from U.C. Berkeley

This web page was created September 5, 1997. Since then, it has been accessed times.

Gregory J. Sandell (sandell@sparky.parmly.luc.edu)