On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So imagine the average desktop user who gets five or so of > them: > > - one provided by the application (player or something) > - one provided by PA or similar, > - probably two by the soundcard mixer, PA combines these three into one. So the non-audio-engineer user should have a lot bigger chance of not messing things up with PA compared to with pure ALSA (where you do have to fiddle with all the mixers and the application mixer on top). Sorry if this was what you were trying to point out. -t
