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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:07:21 -0600
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?
From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= <caneko@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman
>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews
>>>> <matthews.willie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there somethi=
ng
>>>>> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?
>>>>
>>>> alsa dmix
>>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's
>>> how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default.
>>
>> Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.
>>
>
> Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light turned on about how KDE (and I
> suspect most desktop managers) is likely doing it.
GNOME uses PulseAudio by default, and since 3.0 is actually mandatory.
I believe Xfce uses PA also, and (please, tell me if I'm wrong) KDE
also by default uses PA.
Jack (according to the PA maintainers) is for professional audio processing=
.
And please keep in mind that PulseAudio is so much more than "multiple
audio streams". It's per-application volume control, seamlessly moving
audio streams from one audio card to another, and really easy
management of things like USB soundcards and bluetooth headsets.
dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in
my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it
will never be able to do the other stuff PA handles.
Regards.
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