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> > So are you saying plugs are no longer required or that they are only |
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> > needed for certain apps that take over the audio device. |
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> I don't even know exactly what ALSA plugs are, and ALSA has worked |
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> perfectly for all these years, so yeah, whatever an ALSA plug is, either |
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> it is not required anymore, or it is handled automagically by ALSA. |
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Just did a quick Google to refresh my memory and I used plug:dmix as the |
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device file name in order to prevent apps hogging the sound card. |
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From Wikipedia |
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"A card's interface is a description of an ALSA protocol for accessing |
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the card; possible interfaces include: hw, plughw, default, and |
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plug:dmix. The hw interface provides direct access to the kernel |
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device, but no software mixing or stream adaptation support. The plughw |
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and default enable sound output where the hw interface would produce an |
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error." |
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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work |
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together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a |
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universal interface' |
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(Doug McIlroy) |
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