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An answer from a different Walter <G>... |
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> I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but looking |
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> over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt to deal |
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> with audio properly for the future. These days we have computers and |
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> devices that can interact with many other things in weird and |
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> wonderful ways and software needs to deal with that. |
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> I just curious why you think that it's not useful to the ordinary |
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> user in a generic wide way. |
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I'll throw the question back to you. What specific benefits do you |
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see? Not just generalities, but real life benfits, please. Sound |
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daemons in general seem to be solutions in search of a problem. And if |
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they couldn't find any problems to solve, they'd make up some new ones |
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of their own. I remember the first I heard of pulseaudio was all the |
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weeping and moaning of people on this forum and the GTALUG (Toronto area |
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linux mailing list) trying to get sound working again after installing |
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pulseaudio. |
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Remember arts and esd? They went the way of HAL. Nuff said. The |
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thing to remember is that humans cannot multitask audio very well. Try |
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listening to 2 radio stations at once, and see what I mean. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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