Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (and on dyne:bolic work better?!)

2005-07-15 Thread jaromil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:15:31PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: Me too. It worked great on both my ancient laptop and my desktop, though I did have to modprobe snd-usb-audio to get my usb midi box detected. I've been raving about it to everyone. It

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (and on dyne:bolic work better?!)

2005-07-15 Thread Iain Duncan
the main differences from before is that it will have a compiler inside and that it will be a multiuser environment. also i'm not going to be the only mantainer of the only branch available: there will be more dyne: versions. actually the first branch out of dyne:II is the pure:dyne project

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (and on dyne:bolic work better?!)

2005-07-13 Thread jaromil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Andres Cabrera wrote: I've also tried dynebolic (www.dynebolic.org) and on the two systems I've tried works considerably better than agnula live and the suse live audio cd. Cheers, Andres wow :) for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (and on dyne:bolic work better?!)

2005-07-13 Thread Iain Duncan
Me too. It worked great on both my ancient laptop and my desktop, though I did have to modprobe snd-usb-audio to get my usb midi box detected. I've been raving about it to everyone. It also is incredibly easy to customize. jaromil wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Andres

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-21 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:59:32 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: (And remember GNOME KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME KDE apps can use ALSA directly.) They don't have to use ALSA directly, but they can use a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 18:47 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: The set-up is, however, not only the choice of the soundcard, but it includes eventually the choice and set-up of devices. For example, the default I/O should support 5.1 output or SPDIF if user wants (I'm wondering why no one mentions

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 10:36 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: Maybe I am stupid and therefore I have to ask: What is the rationale for running KDE (or Gnome?) in an MS Win environment? You can work in both environment seamlessly. I think he meant to ask What do people still do that requires

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-21 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:50:38 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 18:47 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: The set-up is, however, not only the choice of the soundcard, but it includes eventually the choice and set-up of devices. For example, the default I/O should support 5.1 output

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Mario Lang
Christoph Eckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's the current coding standard for consumer audio apps that should work in both KDE and GNOME enviroments ? Use ALSA directly, support both artsd/esd etc ? that's the problem. Currently there's no standard, but creating one would simplify

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Peter Zubaj
What I mean is if you have your soundserver, you are still left with rewritting every single app you ever want to use to use the soundserver, otherwise the problem still remains. There are a hell of a lot of tools around that use either plain OSS or direct ALSA. Why not simply use alsa api.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Damon Chaplin
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:34 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Ideally we'd be rid of artsd, esd, and all the legacy from OSS/Free. We'd have one sound server (JACK?) and software mixing would be enabled by default. The remaining question is how to make this mandatory for at least the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 11:33 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote: (And remember GNOME KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME KDE apps can use ALSA directly.) If Gnome/KDE can't use the native sound system in Linux, then, ehrmm ... Then the port is incomplete, and they are simply not

Re: Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Davis
In the System Preferences-Sound menu, a user can choose the default audio input and audio output device. In the CoreAudio API, this choice becomes the current value of kAudioHardwarePropertyDefaultInputDevice and kAudioHardwarePropertyDefaultOutputDevice. Consumer-oriented apps use

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:23:57 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: But the core ALSA developers work for SuSE.  There must be some other explanation for this one. Maybe they just felt that dmix was not ready until recently.  Or maybe their desktop people really do not ever talk to the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:33:18 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:34 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Ideally we'd be rid of artsd, esd, and all the legacy from OSS/Free. We'd have one sound server (JACK?) and software mixing would be enabled by default. The remaining

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Tim Orford
discipline. The differences are not overcomable, and i think you would Sorry, as Fons pointed out in his +5 Insightful comment, this should have been not *un*overcomable, or even *are* overcomable... -- Tim Orford

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:59:11 -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: I think that the core question is do Windows and OS X users have to know anything about sound servers to get multiple applications to talk to the soundcard? The answer is obviously no. The second question is do Windows and OS X

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
I remember how happy I once was when I found libao to avoid the parallel ALSA/OSS existance problem when coding a very small application that basically just wanted to deliver output.  I wonder how hard it would be to write one library that does the multiplexing and autodetection/config

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
(And remember GNOME KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME KDE apps can use ALSA directly.) They don't have to use ALSA directly, but they can use a common library which uses ALSA directly like polypaudio. That's true. KDE also runs on other operating systems like BSD or even

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: (And remember GNOME KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME KDE apps can use ALSA directly.) They don't have to use ALSA directly, but they can use a common library which uses ALSA directly like polypaudio. That's

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
Of course they can use ALSA, but only indirectly via some cross-platform API (like jack/esd/aRts/polypaudio). Portaudio comes to my mind. It's already used by audacity. Best regards ce

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
The best place to sort this out is probably http://freedesktop.org/ That is where GNOME KDE agree on interoperability issues. gstreamer seems to be one candidate. If you can get GNOME KDE to agree I'm pretty sure the distros would follow. It's just a matter of coming up with a good

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
Maybe I am stupid and therefore I have to ask: What is the rationale for running KDE (or Gnome?) in an MS Win environment? It's geeky ;-) . Best regards ce

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 02:16 +0200, Joachim Schiele wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2005 01:59, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: (And remember GNOME KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME KDE apps can use ALSA directly.)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-20 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 02:16 +0200, Joachim Schiele wrote: What is the rationale for doing anything? Fun? Sex? Ego? Evolution? Nonsense? Joachim! Most of what I do, I do out of curiosity, as in: What if? Having said that, most of your question marks fits straight in. They are good questions!

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread gerard van dongen
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:57:27 +0200, fons adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A number of issues have been mixed up in this debate: 1. 'cheap' vs. 'pro' audio cards. I do agree there is a large category in between, usually named 'prosumer', and that these are used by 'professional' (as

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Jay Vaughan
And since when is switching the audio engine to change from reading your email to doing your audio editing a big issue? i'll tell you when: when you've used OSX, and are now trying Linux out, and Don't Understand At All Why You Have To Even Bother, Or Why Its Cool That You Have To Bother.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Jay Vaughan
- If ever I have reason, as a customer paying for your services, to suspect that you are careless about the security and confidentiality of the data related to my project, for example if I know that your girlfriend or 12 year old son are using the same login to do their chatting, then I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
Now given the two following options: A. Extend Jack to accomodate all the diverse needs of the desktop developers, and request them to use it for all applications, this woud IMHO be the best solution, but it will not happen or at least last very long until * all distros will have JACK

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Peter Zubaj
this woud IMHO be the best solution, but it will not happen or at least last very long until * all distros will have JACK running per default * all developers of any audio program have rewritten their code. Why not use only ALSA API. There is alsa to jack plugin. If someone wants use jack it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Benno Senoner
Lee Revell wrote: FWIW, Linspire (formerly Lindows) have made the same conclusion, and their next release will use JACK for all desktop audio. Interesting. Do you know how they intend to use jack for desktop apps ? using artsd/gstreamer/esd piped into jack or other methods ? Benno

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
Interesting. Do you know how they intend to use jack for desktop apps ? using artsd/gstreamer/esd piped into jack or other methods ? I guess via bio2jack.sf.net. THe xmms output plugin is based on it, and I guess also the arts output plugin does use it. Best regards ce

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
Why not use only ALSA API. There is alsa to jack plugin. If someone wants use jack it can be used to route audio to jack. Also there are alsa - OSS driver plugins. This means you can output sound from alsa app to oss driver or capture from alsa driver without any source change. As soon as

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Richard Spindler
Hm, maybe the following will be an acceptable solution: Non-Pro Applications should use the ALSA-API for Audio Output and Input. They will use the default ALSA Device, which by default should be the DMIX Plugin, which does samplerate conversion and mixing, if this is not provided by the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Dave Phillips
Jay Vaughan wrote: look, the point is: your proposal is faulty. having two logins, one for 'pro' use, and one for 'my teenage daughter', instead of engineering software subsystems that can accomodate the need for professional, always-working, rock-solid stable audio .. this is just ..

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Jay Vaughan
I lied about retiring from this discussion. ;-) well .. good, because i believe this thread bears fruit. I agree that the distinction between pro and consumer should be a non-issue. Historically hardware manufacturers certainly make the distinction, they build some gear for Johnny Stay At

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 12:44 +0200, Benno Senoner wrote: Lee Revell wrote: FWIW, Linspire (formerly Lindows) have made the same conclusion, and their next release will use JACK for all desktop audio. Interesting. Do you know how they intend to use jack for desktop apps ? using

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, personally, if i knew it would help, i wouldn't mind spending time patching existing apps and submitting patches to their coders, if it brought everyone into a 'common base' that could be further exploited to put linux audio in a better state. much appreciated. You're welcome :) . But

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hm, maybe the following will be an acceptable solution: Non-Pro Applications should use the ALSA-API for Audio Output and Input. They will use the default ALSA Device, which by default should be the DMIX Plugin, which does samplerate conversion and mixing, if this is not provided by the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:31 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Forget it. The distros put packages together (that's their first job) and create installers and configuration GUIs. They do not help improving packages. But the core ALSA developers work for SuSE. There must be some other

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-19 Thread Christoph Eckert
But the core ALSA developers work for SuSE. There must be some other explanation for this one. Maybe they just felt that dmix was not ready until recently. Or maybe their desktop people really do not ever talk to the ALSA people. Takashi once told me that DMIX was a bit buggy for some

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Martin Habets
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:34:46AM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: I think we should (and can) keep the desktop and 'pro' worlds separate. I do not agree :) . We're in the free software world, so there's no need to tell the non-pro-audio-users use anything else. I think we can educate

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Christoph Eckert wrote: well, I have written a small login script which catches the ALSA ID of my USB card and starts JACK on top of it each time I login. This is because I use three USB devices and I didn't manage to index them correctly to make them appear in the same order each day. If

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Martin Habets hat gesagt: // Martin Habets wrote: I think we can educate users to use a different login for pro-audio work versus their normal desktop. The different logins can use a different audio setup. Actually I think, that having (at least) two soundcards will become a standard:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
I think we can educate users to use a different login for pro-audio work versus their normal desktop. The different logins can use a different audio setup. I think we can not. Personally I have a special runlevel to do audio work, but that would probably be asking too much from your

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Jay Vaughan
At 2:34 +0200 18/6/05, Christoph Eckert wrote: I think we should (and can) keep the desktop and 'pro' worlds separate. definitely not. I do not agree :) . We're in the free software world, so there's no need to tell the non-pro-audio-users use anything else. there should just be

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Jay Vaughan
I think we can educate users to use a different login for pro-audio work versus their normal desktop. The different logins can use a different audio setup. what an absolutely horrid solution. i can't believe its even being considered. Personally I have a special runlevel to do audio work,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
there should just be 'working audio', whether your app is a desktop app, a sound-synth, or a DAW. why should there be a difference? *sigh* :) There are at least no technical reasons. Since I have some knowledge about linux audio, I try to elicit what the future audio subsystem for linux

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Richard Spindler
Well I think that there is absolutly no border between Professional Audio and Non-Professional Audio. Just think about it, today you're using mainly xmms to play some ogg-files, but suddenly you become a little creative, und you want to do some drumming with hydrogen. I see no reason why somebody

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:38:52PM +0200, Richard Spindler wrote: Well I think that there is absolutly no border between Professional Audio and Non-Professional Audio. See some previous posts. Just think about it, today you're using mainly xmms to play some ogg-files, but suddenly you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:06:34PM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: I think we can educate users to use a different login for pro-audio work versus their normal desktop. The different logins can use a different audio setup. what an absolutely horrid solution. i can't believe its even being

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Tim Goetze
[fons adriaensen] On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:04:11PM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: there should just be 'working audio', whether your app is a desktop app, a sound-synth, or a DAW. why should there be a difference? Why are the terms 'consumer' and 'professional' used to denote two different

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Richard Spindler hat gesagt: // Richard Spindler wrote: Well I think that there is absolutly no border between Professional Audio and Non-Professional Audio. Just think about it, today you're using mainly xmms to play some ogg-files, but suddenly you become a little creative, und you

Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread lazzaro
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:34:46AM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: I think we should (and can) keep the desktop and 'pro' worlds separate. I do not agree :) . We're in the free software world, so there's no need to tell the non-pro-audio-users use anything else. How OS X solves this

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:24:26PM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: Dividing computed audio into a 'professional' and an 'amateur' camp only serves to defend obsolete categories and the arbitrary borders inbetween. I can assure you that from a POV of a paying customer, the difference is neither

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Tim Orford
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:24:26PM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: Dividing computed audio into a 'professional' and an 'amateur' camp only serves to defend obsolete categories and the arbitrary borders inbetween. Sorry Tim, but I'm with Fons :-) These categories, even though they are not

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Jay Vaughan
If all distros adopted JACK and all audio apps were JACKified, we're done and all struggling would have been past. so what this really means, is a mass patch project to get all offending audio apps (OSS) in line with the New Linux Audio Reality. i don't see anything wrong with that. -- ;

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Jay Vaughan
I don't see the switch in that scenario. And if you are a 'pro' you'd probably use an ogg player using the 'pro' setup from the start. you're missing the point: you're not a pro, you're someone who becomes a pro. As was already pointed out, prosumer and professional users will in all

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Jay Vaughan
what an absolutely horrid solution. i can't believe its even being considered. You will not have to educate a professional user to do this. He will do it anayway because it makes sense, even ignoring the reasons we are debating here. it doesn't make -any- freakin' sense whatsoever!! As

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Jay Vaughan
At 18:03 +0200 18/6/05, fons adriaensen wrote: Denying that this difference exists is a postmodern trend, but is misguided (IMHO). well, i work in the pro audio world, it is my bread and butter, and i can tell you that if Linux Audio goes in the direction of requiring 'two different configs'

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Jay Vaughan
These categories, even though they are not absolute, and overlap, do indicate real differences in expectations and working methodology. this is utterly, 100%, arbitrary. 'pro' does not mean 'totally different way of doing things', nor does 'consumer' mean the only lazy option. -- ; Jay

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Tim Orford
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 08:57:51PM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: These categories, even though they are not absolute, and overlap, do indicate real differences in expectations and working methodology. this is utterly, 100%, arbitrary. 'pro' does not mean 'totally different way of doing

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Tim Goetze
[fons adriaensen] On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:24:26PM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: Dividing computed audio into a 'professional' and an 'amateur' camp only serves to defend obsolete categories and the arbitrary borders inbetween. I can assure you that from a POV of a paying customer, the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 16:38 +0200, Richard Spindler wrote: Well I think that there is absolutly no border between Professional Audio and Non-Professional Audio. Just think about it, today you're using mainly xmms to play some ogg-files, but suddenly you become a little creative, und you want

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
Actually I think, that having (at least) two soundcards will become a standard: One (like the onboard chip) for mp3 listening etc, and a professional one for audio work. I dislike this idea. I'm currently doing so: * Running arts/ogg players on top of AC97 * Running my music stuff on top of

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
the 'cheap sound card' should work using the same tech as the 'expensive' one. Seconded :) . Best regards ce

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
Well I think that there is absolutly no border between Professional Audio and Non-Professional Audio. See some previous posts. I also dislike the idea of dividing the users to pros and amateurs. Am I a pro? Certainly not, I'm just a hobbyist. And I'd be glad if some day I could install

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
I didn't want to make that difference, but as every mainboard nowadays has a decent audio chip onboard and as every more demanding user (the professional) has a second card, too, why not just split applications between those two? I think that's not the point we're discussing. Of course, if

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jay Vaughan hat gesagt: // Jay Vaughan wrote: why not, no matter whether the chipset is on-board, or in an external firewire case, present the -same- configuration of the audio-system, no matter what! *this* would be a pro approach. saying that its okay to have two different

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
Forgive me the harsh word, but this is all useless BS. :) I have to admit I don't care if Linux audio is used by many or none, pro or ama; I don't care for world domination either. That's exactly the point. You do not care (and that's absolutely OK)... I have the tools I want, now is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
so what this really means, is a mass patch project to get all offending audio apps (OSS) in line with the New Linux Audio Reality. i don't see anything wrong with that. What's wrong with that is that we do not all agree in the LA* community. And as long as we do not agree we cannto

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 08:12:54PM +0200, Tim Orford wrote: As well as the difference between Pro/Amateur there is the Consumer/Producer divide. To anyone who isnt involved in any kind of production, Jackd is inappropriate. Probably not if it's so solid that it can become 'invisible' to the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
On my laptop, all my audio software I use on stage is configured to use an external soundcard (hw:1) because it's much better quality, Frank, are you really talking about our beloved Terratec Aureon?!? Just kidding :) . whereas all my desktop audio software (alsaplayer etc.) is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
Actually I think, that having (at least) two soundcards will become a standard: One (like the onboard chip) for mp3 listening etc, and a professional one for audio work. Disagreed. Einspruch, euer hren ;-) Best regards ce

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:29:50AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: On my laptop, all my audio software I use on stage is configured to use an external soundcard (hw:1) because it's much better quality, whereas all my desktop audio software (alsaplayer etc.) is configured to use the internal

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
Well I think that there is absolutly no border between Professional Audio and Non-Professional Audio. Disagreed ;-) . But there's no border in tech terms. I often see that amateurs use better equipment than professionals. Therefore: Agreed at 100%. I remember my keyboard teacher who earns

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
I'm basically doing the same thing. On my 'studio' system, all 'entertainment' stuff goes to the onboard chip and that drives the speakers built into the monitor. Meanwhile jackd runs on the Terratec hooked up to an external mixer. The onboard output also goes to that mixer but is rarely

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:57:16PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: I also dislike the idea of dividing the users to pros and amateurs. Am I a pro? Certainly not, I'm just a hobbyist. And I'd be glad if some day I could install any distro, plug in my guitar, fire up jack-rack and start

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 01:23:10AM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: Thanks Paul for Ardour! Thanks++ -- FA

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 08:49:16PM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: So even elementary security provides more than enough reason to keep the two well separated. eh? sorry, but you've gone stupid on this issue. Maybe I am stupid, and maybe you are a professional. In that case let me make two

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-18 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
I think that the core question is do Windows and OS X users have to know anything about sound servers to get multiple applications to talk to the soundcard? The answer is obviously no. The second question is do Windows and OS X users have to know a bit more about audio in order to use it for

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-17 Thread Christoph Eckert
I think we should (and can) keep the desktop and 'pro' worlds separate. I do not agree :) . We're in the free software world, so there's no need to tell the non-pro-audio-users use anything else. And if they have to be integrated, the solution will be JACK. Agreed. Writing a JACKified

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-15 Thread Esben Stien
Andres Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: something you know will cause an xrun, like when returning from the screensaver or dragging quickly many windows This is totally unacceptable (in my opinion) and it should not happen. It does not happen here (anymore). Versions?. -- Esben Stien is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-15 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:46 +0200, Esben Stien wrote: Andres Cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: something you know will cause an xrun, like when returning from the screensaver or dragging quickly many windows This is totally unacceptable (in my opinion) and it should not happen. It does

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-15 Thread Esben Stien
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mplayer -ao jack Works flawlessly here. -- Esben Stien is [EMAIL PROTECTED] s a http://www. s tn m irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact [sip|iax]: e e jid:b0ef@n n

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Phillips
Jay Vaughan wrote: such opinion-cults are all the FOSS world -has- for a PR front. this one happens to be negative. its quite possible, however, that a counter to his position would work *positively*, if we were prepared to organize it a bit. i'd be quite happy, actually, to submit to /. a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Garett Shulman
I assume you've already seen my 18 articles (one per month) published on-line for the Linux Journal ? Or perhaps you've read the articles I've written for the hard-copy LJ, Linux Magazine-UK or the Computer Music Journal ? Every letter of that output deals with Linux audio (and even some

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Mario Lang
Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:12 +0200, Jan Weil wrote: Am Dienstag, den 14.06.2005, 10:36 -0400 schrieb Lee Revell: Who in the hell is this jwz, and why does everyone care what he thinks so much? Can someone at least post a link to this rant of his? This

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread James McDermott
Dave Phillips wrote: I can honestly say that jwz appears to have no influence at all within this community. Well, that's exactly the point, isn't it. Within this enlightened, favoured and lucky community, no-one needs convincing - that would be preaching to the choir. The original poster wants

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Christoph Eckert
The original poster wants to change opinions *outside* the community, where some people do think Linux audio's not up to scratch - or that it's hard to configure - or whatever. If they're wrong, the original poster was saying, let's change their minds. Isn't it too early? I think 2005 is a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Richard Spindler
Hi, I just wanted to add what I think about the whole issue: Frist of all, jwz is fundamentally right with one observation: There is something wrong with the Linux-Audio Situation. You install the Operating System, you want to listen to some Sound, and it doesn't work. This is a problem.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Phillips
James McDermott wrote: Dave Phillips wrote: I can honestly say that jwz appears to have no influence at all within this community. Well, that's exactly the point, isn't it. Within this enlightened, favoured and lucky community, no-one needs convincing - that would be preaching to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Jay Vaughan
Agreed, but as I tried to indicate, there's a boatload of helpful information out there. jwz writes *as if it doesn't exist*. he writes simply this: he shouldn't have to freakin' care. maybe this is linus' fault for not putting in all the kernel patches needed to make ALSA just work, eh?

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Jay Vaughan
Well, that's exactly the point, isn't it. Within this enlightened, favoured and lucky community, no-one needs convincing - that would be preaching to the choir. The original poster wants to change opinions *outside* the community, where some people do think Linux audio's not up to scratch - or

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Phillips
Hi Jay: Thanks for your civil response and the good humor. Yes, I'm blowing off steam, and yes, I can be as self-righteous as anyone else. It's probably because I do use the very software jwz despairs of. And I have to add that no, I don't especially care for the slumming style of the

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
Agreed, but as I tried to indicate, there's a boatload of helpful information out there. jwz writes *as if it doesn't exist*. He doesn't avail himself of the available resources, and he discredits himself and his opinions by just that failure. His articles show little evidence of background

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:58 +0200, Mario Lang wrote: People seem to be fooled by the fact that jwz has done many open source contributions. However, he has a history of ranting, last instance I remember was a hate-parade against the Debian X Windows System maintainers. Just ignore him, my 2

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:09:38PM +0200, Richard Spindler wrote: Hi, I'm actually amazed that there is still no premium Linux-Workstation Integrator that ships well selected Linux-Boxes with a custom Linux-Distribution that's exactly fitted to the Hardware. That'd be hard to beat.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

2005-06-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 20:55 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:09:38PM +0200, Richard Spindler wrote: Hi, I'm actually amazed that there is still no premium Linux-Workstation Integrator that ships well selected Linux-Boxes with a custom Linux-Distribution