On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:50 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > but more broadly, windows is not the gold standard here, OS X is, and > the truth is that apple have designed a much better system from day one. > on OS X, things do work more or less the way jwz and many other people > think they should. JACK gets close, and in a few ways (inter-app > connectivity) betters CoreAudio, but it is not a general purpose audio > API and there are no whipmasters to force mplayer, skype, and rest of > the desktop app developers to use it.
Out of interest, what APIs do you think GNOME and KDE should provide for sound? It would be great to standardize on one set of APIs that provided support for both general purpose and professional quality audio apps (and all working together happily). Damon
