On March 18, 2019 5:05:18 AM HST, Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 15:28, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 8:26 PM david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Would love to listen to it, but I use Firefox without PulseAudio > >> installed, so cannot play anything at SoundCloud. > > > > It sounds to me as if you mean "I cannot listen to any audio from my > web browser". There's nothing about SoundCloud that requires > PulseAudio - it's just the way your browser gets audio out into the > world. > > > > I'm no fan of PulseAudio but I cannot fathom why anyone would choose > to cut off their nose to spite their face over this. > > > > Or maybe I'm missing something. > > If that's the only option, your position is perfectly rational Paul. > What David might not know is that Firefox can still work just fine > with ALSA, as it does on my computer. It might not be maintained in > Firefox any more (I'm not sure), but the code is still there, enabled > at compile-time with --enable-alsa. Maybe check with your distro > maintainer. My distro is Debian. They seem to be mandating PulseAudio for Firefox and their Gnome desktop environment. But I think even the FF65 package I downloaded from Mozilla mandates PA. My history with PA is of endless hoop jumping as it always wanted to have all audio go through either the built-in HDA (not connected to anything), or route it to HDMI (useless since my monitor has no speakers, anyway.) My external USB device always got ignored. In general, the only time I need audio from Firefox is when I rarely play something from a website. Since youtube-dl works on Soundcloud, I'm ok. -- David W. Jones gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
