On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
The OP's original request: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2017-March/107563.html IMO the implicit master question is, what setup meets the OP's needs. In most cases it makes no sense to run two sound servers in combination, that are aimed for opposite purposes. Doing this usually is self-defeating. Why starting from the premise that the OP's needs fit to an unlikely corner case?
This is a case where the combination of pulse and jackdbus work quite well. Wanting to have a DAW on the screen and be able to, without exiting from the DAW, play a u-toob vid... I don't know, for instruction (a tutorial), illustration, (thats the sound I mean) or whatever, is hardly a corner case. In general, web browsers don't just emit noises at odd times and in the case of ubuntustudio, the default is that all desktop noises are turned off.
Certainly, in a studio where the DAW computer is used for nothing else, never connected to network anyway and there is another general purpose computer sitting there anyway, having pulse installed (or a web browser) is pointless. However, one might argue that in todays world and within Ubuntustudio's target audience, this DAW only computer would be a corner case.
If the creators of jackd had finished it to present a default alsa device as pulse does, handle USB devices that appear and vanish without notice, switching from one to the other as needed... maybe there wuld be no pulse. But jack does not cover all needs and so a frontend such as pulseaudio can be a real plus. There are a number of workflows where a pulse/jack combination is the only way to make it work. (radio studio that uses skype for callin or interviews comes to mind) I hear rumours that pulse handles Blue Tooth Audio and ALSA doesn't. (if true, what does that say about the future of ALSA?)
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