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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:26 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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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. |
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Have you ever been talking to someone when the fire alarm went off? Then |
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you'd realise we can multitask audio. Imagine if your ears decided not to |
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tell you about the alarm, because you were deep in conversation. That |
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used to be a problem and the reason we needed sound daemons. The reason |
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aRTS expired is that ALSA gained software mixing capabilities and a |
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separate daemon was no longer needed. |
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Pulseaudio has some interesting applications, such as being to control |
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settings on a per application basis, your audio player can use the |
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speakers while your VOIP program can use a bluetooth headset if paired. |
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At the moment it is too messy and troublesome to bother with, but one day |
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I hope we will get a decent sound control system. However, I know in my |
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heart that is also the day we will be told it is no longer enough and we |
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have to have a new system. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," |
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and there was light. |
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