mflaten wrote: > I read in a website that: > > "Warning: Simply setting a type hw as default card is equivalent to > addressing hardware directly, which leaves the device unavailable to > other applications. This method is only recommended if it is a part of a > more sophisticated setup ~/.asoundrc or if user deliberately wants to > address sound card directly (digital output through eic958 or dedicated > music server for example)." further "In most cases it is recommended to > use sound card names instead of number references, which also solves > boot order problem." > > It seems then if one wanted a dedicated setup as clean as possible then > the "HW" output configuration should be used and it seems there should > be no reason to use anything else. Does this make sense ro am I missing > something? Would there be any improvement by any other configuration? > > :confused: The way I see it - hw is direct to hardware with no messing or additions by ALSA subsysytem (e.g. no spying, no copying, no resampling , no equaliser). So player s/w has to create the audio stream that "hw" device can support. For example if hw device can only support 44.1kHz and 48kHz then player software has to upsample/downsample non 44.1/48 streams but resampling can be done to user chosen algorithms - with devices such as plughw ALSA will do resampling according to ALSA algorithms.
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