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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Juan_Diego_Tasc=C3=B3n?= <juantascon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:11:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?
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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 Tasc=C3=B3n <juantascon@gmail.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@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Willie Matthews
>> <matthews.willie@gmail.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@gmail.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
>>