On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:56 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:34:01PM +0530, AlgoMantra wrote: > > > I'm a newbie to audio in linux. I can code in C, and I know that > > if you $cat /dev/dsp you can see your microphone feeding weird > > shit into this sound device. > > /dev/dsp and /dev/audio are OSS devices and almost never used > in Linux Audio. They exist mainly for compatibility with old > software.
I think, while absolutely true from an engineering aspect, there is something to be said for /dev/dsp for lowering barriers of entry into audio programming. Doing experiments like this was how I started doing it, and it would be a shame to ever remove this option completely. cheers, dave _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
