On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Philip Rhoades wrote:
I am just a regular user of Linux audio but I am interested in the
history of how software was developed and what problems they were meant
to solve on Linux eg OSS, ALSA, Jack etc and more recently PipeWire.
Is there such a documented history already in existence on the web
somewhere? (ie NOT a HOWTO) - that would be intelligible to non-audio
professionals?
Funny that. I started using Linux in the early 90s. I had no sound card at
the time and did music on tape with one track with sync, giving me 7 audio
tracks and 16 (well 32 if I wanted but 16 was enough to cover the few
synths I had) tracks of midi. For that sequencing I used an Atari Mega.
Sound cards were more than my small budget could afford and so I ignored
OSS till I got one. I had just figgured OSS well enough to use a bit when
ALSA showed up and so was annoyed that I had to figgure out a new audio
server. However, my low memory, low speed mother boards of the time meant
audio was more of a curiosity. By the time I got something I could
actually do sound on (a P4 single core) Jack on top of alsa was the way to
do things.
All that to say, even though I have been using Linux from the roll your
kernel monthly days, I can't really say much about audio history.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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