On 20 May 2014 16:22, David Benfell <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ian Malone writes: > >> On 20 May 2014 04:50, David Benfell <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> But even >>> so, unless you have a specialized need for Pulseaudio, which apparently >>> may >>> include very high-end audiophile applications, removing it seems >>> generally >>> harmless. >> >> >> High end audiophile applications like having more than one sound >> source running at a time? > > > I'm sorry. I can't answer this adequately. It's what came up the last time I > saw this discussion. > > Apparently, and I'm clearly not anywhere near enough of an audiophile to > understand what they were going on about, pulseaudio does make some sound > capabilities that matter a lot to musicians--which I think *did* include > mixing--and other people who really care about extremely high fidelity > sound. It was, for me, a jaw-dropping conversation that required me to > acknowledge that as much as I think I care about high quality sound, I was > completely out of my league. > > I'd point you to the right list if I remembered which it was. And I think > it'll be hard to find via Google because usually discussions about > pulseaudio and its necessity devolve into flame wars. > That sounds more like Jack, where latency and multiple stream handling is important. Neither Jack nor PA particularly help with high fidelity sound, good hardware does that. (There is a slight factor in how sample rate and depth conversion is handled.) I was really referring to the fact in 'the bad old days' it was necessary to halt or even shut-down one application that was playing sound before another could. The normal response to this is 'but I only listen to one thing at a time!'. Which is not really true if, for example you want to have skype running but listen to music, or use flash at all. There was a brief attempt to fix this with alsa dmix settings, but it's pretty inflexible. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
