On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:26 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > Remember arts and esd? They went the way of HAL. Nuff said. The > thing to remember is that humans cannot multitask audio very well.
Have you ever been talking to someone when the fire alarm went off? Then you'd realise we can multitask audio. Imagine if your ears decided not to tell you about the alarm, because you were deep in conversation. That used to be a problem and the reason we needed sound daemons. The reason aRTS expired is that ALSA gained software mixing capabilities and a separate daemon was no longer needed. Pulseaudio has some interesting applications, such as being to control settings on a per application basis, your audio player can use the speakers while your VOIP program can use a bluetooth headset if paired. At the moment it is too messy and troublesome to bother with, but one day I hope we will get a decent sound control system. However, I know in my heart that is also the day we will be told it is no longer enough and we have to have a new system. -- Neil Bothwick God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light.
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