On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Ben Koenig wrote:
I think your pulseaudio setup is working, ...
Ben, It probably is and I don't understand what it does and does not do. My limited digital audio knowlege is that pulse is another interface to ALSA. And I don't care what tool I'm using as long as it does the job.
As for JACK, it's either pulseaudio or jack.
I removed JACK. What I want is a tool to select audio input and output devices. I've assumed that alsamixer provides this capability combined with setting the volume levels for each device. I see on SBo the package apulse. The README file tells me, "PulseAudio emulation for ALSA. "The program provides an alternative partial implementation of the PulseAudio API. It consists of a loader script and a number of shared libraries with the same names as from original PulseAudio, so applications could dynamically load them and think they are talking to PulseAudio. Internally, no separate sound mixing daemon is used. Instead, apulse relies on ALSA's dmix, dsnoop, and plug plugins to handle multiple sound sources and capture streams running at the same time. dmix plugin muxes multiple playback streams; dsnoop plugin allow multiple applications to capture from a single microphone; and plug plugin transparently converts audio between various sample formats, sample rates and channel numbers. For more than a decade now, ALSA comes with these plugins enabled and configured by default." Might this be the tool I'm seeking? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
