On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Steve White wrote: > Lee, > >> On 3/22/07, Steve White <stevan_white@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> * enter directly the ALSA HW address of the speakers in each application >>> (for the few applications that support it) or >> >> File a bug against any application that does not let you select the sound >> card. >> >> No one would accept a network utility that only supported eth0... >> > I'm afraid I don't agree with this point, and don't accept the analogy. > > Most network utilities don't let you pick which hardware interface is to be > used for But they do allow you to pick which IP address you are going to send stuff to. > communication. That is different from saying they only function with a > particular > interface. The question is, who and what are responsible for the > determination of > which interface is to be used? I would hope you are. Why in the world would you want a fascist operating system telling you which sound interface you have to use. > > Likewise, many sound utilities assume that some other entity is responsible > for > picking the sound hardware. Why would they assume that? That is a stupid assumption. > > Although some users might want to send one sound stream to one sound card > and > another to a different card, for my purposes, I just want the sound to go to > the > *right* device. At present, making ALSA do this is much more fiddly than I > would like. You are the only one who knows what the "right" device is. Thus you are the one that should tell it > >>> * when the USB speakers are plugged in, all sound should immediatel to >>> them. >>> (That's how it works on Windows and the Mac!) >> >> Immediately, as in, if you're playing an MP3 when you plug in the USB >> device the audio switches to it right away? Or that any apps started after >> plugging the USB device use it by default? >> > I had to double-check. In Windows Vista, one must re-start iTunes after > plugging in the USB speakers, before iTunes will send sound to them. > > So my suggestion would make ALSA behave at least as well as Vista (except > that > it has to be configured once by hand). This is a joke right? As well as? That is a totally fascist operating system in all respects. > >>> My suggestion is, instead of this behavior, that ALSA use all the default >>> entries in the .asoundrc file, reading them in reverse order until it >>> finds working hardware. >> >> This is a good idea and I think it's been posted before... >> > OK then. I'll check if it has been make an official feature request. I still do not understand why writing a hotplug script is so horrible, if that is what you want it to do. That is where this kind of stuff belongs. "I plug in X, When I plug in X I want Y to happen". That was what hotplug scripts were precisely designed to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
