		README for tinycompress
		=======================
	       vinod.koul@linux.intel.com
	       ==========================

1. WHAT
	tinycompress is a userspace library for anyone who wants to use the ALSA
compressed APIs introduced in Linux 3.3
This library provides the APIs to open a ALSA compressed device and read/write
compressed data like MP3 etc to it.

	This also includes a utility command line player (cplay) which demonstrates 
the usage of this API. Currently this contains support for playing the mp3 format

2. WHERE
	The library can found in alsa-project.org
Git: git clone git://git.alsa-project.org/tinycompress.git
Http: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=tinycompress.git

3. PATCHES
	Please send any enhancements/fixes to alsa developer mailing list at:
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org. 

4. LICENSE
	tinycompress is provided under LGPL and BSD dual license

5. CREDITS
- Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> for library design
- Navjot Singh <navjot.singh@intel.com> for writing the mp3 parser code