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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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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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> [...deletia...] |
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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. |
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Debugging. I know which app sounds comes from, in the event that it's |
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ambiguous. I know whether or not I need to adjust the sound settings |
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within an app based on the per-app volume menu. |
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Mixing. Yes, I understand there's dmix. There's no obvious interface |
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to control per-app mixing levels. Where an app doesn't offer |
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individual volume control, that's sometimes useful. |
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These are real-life benefits for users. Maybe not you. *Nobody* can |
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tell you that PA is right for you, because you've rejected it and |
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because you're satisfied with what you have. If what you have works |
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for you, great. Honestly, a pure-ALSA configuration works for me right |
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now. Some times, it hasn't, and I've used PA at those times. |
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> 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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Or play a game with sound effects and music at the same time, and see |
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that mixing exists for a reason. (And then turn off the in-game music |
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and play something appropriate.) |
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