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What PA does add: Another layer of buggy software, crashes, latency, and work. Yay, awesome. !Kubuntu !KDE
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@markey it does more than that, for example autoconfiguring new devices such bluetooth audio, or usb (with alsa you have use an ugly hook)
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@markey Also, it has a "not perfect" but better API than alsa for developers, at the very least it is documented :)
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@afiestas: So then, why don't we improve (or replace) the API of #ALSA, and fix it up, instead of adding a layer on top? #pulseaudio
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@markey That I can't answer properly since I'm not an audio expert, but seems that having a userspace sound daemon is the way to go
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@afiestas BTW pulseaudio works perfect in my hardware and thanks to it I can enjoy my audio hardware (HDMI and Bluetooth devices).
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@noobsaibot Surely not a "random rant". Neither a question. The issue has been there for years, the problem domain is well defined.
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@markey contra! PA allows volume control on a per application basis + network streaming #pulseaudio !KDE
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@salout Not sure if thats worth the extra layer. All my apps have volume control per app, and they don't use #pulseaudio
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@salout: Contra! Network streaming can be done a million other ways, e.g. with UPnP, which was designed for this purpose. #pulseaudio !KDE
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@markey i know you posted a similar dent some time ago. h ence my question.
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@markey alles in allem stimme ich dir zu, wozu noch eine schicht und fehlerquelle einfügen, wenn sie überflüssig ist.
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@markey on the contrary though I found PA works really well for me on Kubuntu. kinda prefer the setup to the pre-PA setup in lucid
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