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From: "Juan Diego Tascón" <juantascon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:08:47
Message-Id: CAA0N71WOe8_F=Bzrf=Xk8xBgGf+bu8NNBVF7ydO6uzA+EZdTJw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system? by Mark Knecht
1 You should check airfoil [1]. It's a multiplatform sound system but
2 it's not open source. Haven't actually tried it myself as pulseaudio
3 fits my needs.
4
5 ** refs:
6
7 [1] http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
8
9 On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Willie Matthews
11 > <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
12 >> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something
13 >> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?
14 >>
15 >> --
16 >>
17 >> Willie Matthews
18 >> matthews.willie@×××××.com
19 >>
20 >
21 > Jack handles multiple streams very well but it's difficult to use if
22 > you're not willing to invest a lot of time and not all apps support
23 > it.
24 >
25 > I've never used pulseaudio so I cannot speak to that personally.
26 >
27 > I also wonder what KDE is doing under the hood. I use multiple VMs all
28 > day long - both VMWare Player and Virtualbox. I get audio from both of
29 > those at the same time, as well as from Firefox or xine running native
30 > in Linux, so I'm doing multiple streams and mixing them in KDE all
31 > automatically. I've never studied how KDE does it, but empirically it
32 > certainly can do multiple streams.
33 >
34 > HTH,
35 > Mark
36 >

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