Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

[Juan Diego Tascón]

no, I missunderstood what it is for, airfoil can only play streams
from windows or mac, the output could be linux though, but anyways it
isn't what you are looking for.

2012/2/27 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon@×××××.com>:
> You should check airfoil [1]. It's a multiplatform sound system but
> it's not open source. Haven't actually tried it myself as pulseaudio
> fits my needs.
>
> ** refs:
>
> [1] http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Willie Matthews
>> <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something
>>> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Willie Matthews
>>> matthews.willie@×××××.com
>>>
>>
>> Jack handles multiple streams very well but it's difficult to use if
>> you're not willing to invest a lot of time and not all apps support
>> it.
>>
>> I've never used pulseaudio so I cannot speak to that personally.
>>
>> I also wonder what KDE is doing under the hood. I use multiple VMs all
>> day long - both VMWare Player and Virtualbox. I get audio from both of
>> those at the same time, as well as from Firefox or xine running native
>> in Linux, so I'm doing multiple streams and mixing them in KDE all
>> automatically. I've never studied how KDE does it, but empirically it
>> certainly can do multiple streams.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Mark
>>