Re: So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

[Rustom Mody <rustompmody@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Roberto Suarez Soto <talkingxouba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 05/02/13 15:58, Dave Phillips wrote:

So, in your honest and bold opinion as user and/or developer, what do we lack
most and what can we do without that we already have ?

        I may be asking for the impossible, but what I'd really, really like, would be something in the line of "Band in a box" and "The Jammer Pro": software that comps along when you're playing some instrument (guitar, in my case). In those programs, you define the chords, the rhythm and a few presets, and you get a nice comping to play along.

        Besides that, the whole PulseAudio vs Jack stuff is a bit grating, but seems more dependant on the distro packaging them than on the software itself. In particular, in Ubuntu, it worked very well in Ubuntu 12.04 (you didn't need to do anything special); but after upgrading to 12.10 it's stopped working (PA doesn't play nice with Jack, you have to stop one to have the other working). It's become almost a tradition for me to fix the sound system each Ubuntu upgrade :-)

Yeah I am surprised no ones mentioned pulseaudio yet (or Ive missed it)
My own experience: About 3-4 years ago it was so bad I switched from ubuntu to debian.
In all fairness now
- debian has also started using pulse like it or not
- ubuntu is more well behaved.  Not perfect but manageable

Note I am hardly in the pro-audio category.  Type a few scores in musescore and check them out is about as pro as I get.
 
Rusi
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