Man in a van wrote: > I'm a numpty at this lark but I notice that the default is > > > > your other settings refer to Alsa. > > > Is this correct? I though one either had Pulse Audio or Alsa. I have > only ever used Alsa so don't know if the two are compatible. > > Just ignore me :rolleyes:
Sounds devices on linux systems are managed by ALSA drivers. But when an application stream something to the ALSA device, this device is locked (and of course, can't be opened by another app). So, for example, if you are listening music on Youtube, you won't be able to hear sounds from a movie played by VLC, because the ALSA device will already be in use. Pulseaudio is the solution to avoid thous rectrictions. It's a sound server. Pulseaudio open an ALSA device (set as default), and appear in ALSA as a virtual ALSA device.So all sounds, from each application is sent to pulseaudio, and Pulseaudio mixes all thous sounds to only one stream that can be sent to the default ALSA device. So, in my case, When I set my squeezelite config file with "default - Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server ", in fact I'm selecting the virtual ALSA device "Pulseaudio". I could select another ALSA device, but if I do so, the ALSA device selected will be locked by squeezelite and I won't be able to play anything else. I hope I'm clear enough ;) If you see an error in my demonstration, please tell me. Thank you for your help ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mathojojo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66246 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109457 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
