Thanks, that helps to understand a bit. I was wondering, because I found a few posts on the internet of people complaining of Pulse audio and trying to remove it. I have it on Crunchbang and haven't seen a problem so far.
On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:07:52 -0600 Mel Walters <melwalt...@telus.net> wrote: > The advantage of pulse audio is that workstations on a modern > Linux distribution are more likely to play "nice" with you and > be setup, in other words "it just works". > > Here is a summary: > > --> PulseAudio is focused on desktop and mobile audio needs. > It doesn't try to address low latency usage, but does provide > seamless device switching, network routing, global > per-application volume control and lots more great stuff. > > --> JACK is focused on the needs of pro-audio and music > creation users. It offers the lowest possible latency, > complete routing flexibility between applications and audio > hardware, and all audio is always sample synchronized - apps > don't run ahead or behind of others. It doesn't provide the > smooth desktop experience that PulseAudio is aiming at. > > I got this off of URL: > http://jackaudio.org/pulseaudio_and_jack > > Does this help? > > On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 07:52 -0600, Joe S wrote: > > I'm seeing pulse audio installed on a few distros. I am > > wondering what the advantage is of pulse audio over alsa for > > sound? > > > > On Fri, 9 May 2014 15:26:05 -0600 > > Gustin Johnson <gus...@meganerd.ca> wrote: > > > > > The "average" person is not doing multi-track sequencing, > > > composition, and arrangements. To be clear, the audio > > > stack he is referring to has nothing to do with general > > > purpose sound playback, which is what pulse is for. > > > > > > It is great to see that this area is getting some more > > > attention. While Linux is used in a number of physical > > > appliance like DAWs, desktop Linux has always been a bit of > > > challenge. We are in much better shape today than even > > > just a few years ago, and leaps and bounds ahead of when I > > > first started to use Linux for "pro" audio (2002 or > > > thereabouts). > > > > > > UbuntuStudio, KXStudio, Planet CCRMA are some other > > > distributions that make installing and configuring this > > > stack a little less challenging. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Mel Walters > > > <melwalt...@telus.net> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 13:14 -0600, Bogi wrote: > > > > > http://www.linuxvoice.com/?cat=2,10 > > > > > > > > I was looking at this earlier and watched some of their > > > > videos. The average person may happiest with pulsed audio > > > > for the typical desktop use. Studio quality sound in your > > > > home computer is so cool to do with FLOSS [1] now, but > > > > worth the learning curve if you get into that. > > > > > > > > Audacity can be used as is on your existing system to > > > > post process your audio files. > > > > > > > > avLinux is another audio distribution very worth having a > > > > peek at: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=08316 > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVLinux > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] Free, as in "Libre" Open Source Software > > > > > > > > > > > > Mel > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > Mailing List Guidelines > > > > (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these > > > > lines when replying > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
