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Digital Audio with Java

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+AH4-It's fair to say, code blame is not to be attributed to the author. The code is OK, the tools are not. You can't find anymore JMF2.0ea which the author used in writing his code. Now it has become simply JMF2.0, not compatible in naming conventions with the ea(early edition) and unavailable when the Author did his book. Sun should have paid better attention to compatibility issues on something they want to attract developers with. I'm holding one star off just to warn about this unfortunate+AH4-+AH4- practice. It wouldn't be bad also if the author puts his newly adapted version of the code on the book publisher WEB site+AH4-

This book's title is a little misleading. The lion's share of this book is actually about writing a Cakewalk-like interface in Java for controlling digital audio production rather than a treatise on digital audio effects themselves. In fact, the first seven chapters of the book is solely about writing code for such controls. Only chapter thirteen talks about specific audio effects such as chorus, flanging, reverb, etc. Even in this chapter I do not believe that there is enough information independent of the author's code to lift filter algorithms from the book and simply port them to your application. Where the book does excel is in the details of what it takes to write a good user interface for a digital audio application. This is an important aspect of audio signal processing and it is ignored in all other books on this subject. The author has updated his code, since the book and CD predate the current release of JMF which is 2.0. Also, the details for the filters can be found in the code itself which is both well organized and well commented. For a book that is much more focused on the algorithms of filters for digital audio processing itself and not on a complete application and its user interface, try "Digital Audio Signal Processing" By Zolzer.

This book has saved my soul. I was looking to build some audio tools using JMF and there was just about nothing out there to help me. Mr. Lindley strikes a balance between the theory of DSP and how to use Java to implement the various audio tools in his book. This is a well-rounded book. I would recommend this book to anyone working with JMF. You will need to get the updated code from the publishers' ftp site. The main reason is that Sun has updated their JMF API. This is a plus. A lot of authors don't even bother updating their code. TWO THUMBS UP!!!!

While some the the awt gui stuff in the first part of the book may or may not apply to your needs (but it's easily adapted to swing if needed), Part II of the book provides excellent examples of digital signal processing in Java. The book also explains a flexible software architecture for plugging in effects at runtime. Code examples are nicely modular and can be easily adapted to more specific tasks. JMF examples are still very useful even after a number of updates to the Java Media Framework from Sun. Writing style is very straight forward and enjoyable. All around, a good read!

This book is excellent. There are a lot of examples covering all subjects in this area. The main characteristic is about the programming language: JAVA! So, who likes digital audio processing and Java will love this book. The musicians will also like to study how the effects are made, and it is the greatest thing for me! =) This book is excellent!

This is a very good book for java programmers who want to try digital audio processing. The book presents the ideas very precisely and all of the source code for the programs are on the accompanying CD.

This is a great book for anyone just getting into DSP. You'll learn how to manipulate audio samples to create some common sound effects, reverb, delay, equalization etc by using real life applications. I write in VB so if you have a little knowledge of C then with a bit of work you can quickly translate all the code in the book. It's heavy on the practical side which is good and it leaves out a lot of theory which would only be overkill at this stage.

This book has saved my soul. I was looking to build some audio tools using JMF and there was just about nothing out there to help me. Mr. Lindley strikes a balance between the theory of DSP and how to use Java to implement the various audio tools in his book. This is a well-rounded book. I would recommend this book to anyone working with JMF. You will need to get the updated code from the publishers' ftp site. The main reason is that Sun has updated their JMF API. This is a plus. A lot of authors don't even bother updating their code. TWO THUMBS UP!!!!

I have huge experiences treating many digital sound software, I think this book could be helpful to whom want to
try to develop digital music software.
Good book.

I bought this book to learn JAVA audio by doing. The javax.media dependent code however isn't compiling under any of the SUN provided JAVA environments for PC. A running code though is crucial to the value of that book, DSP not being its strength. Well if somebody has more luck...