[PD] [PD-dev] audio apis

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Thu May 23 17:45:41 CEST 2013


On 05/23/2013 10:15 AM, Charles Z Henry wrote:
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> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com 
> <mailto:reduzent at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Die, 2013-05-21 at 12:47 +0200, Patrice Colet wrote:
>     > > 7) Does anyone using GNU/Linux system want to use pulse-audio with
>     > > Pd?  The main reason would be easy software mixing-- for example,
>     > > you could watch a tutorial on youtube and get sound out of a
>     running
>     > > instance of Pd without doing any configuration whatsoever.  (At
>     > > least that's what Pulse Audio claims-- I haven't used it so much.)
>     > >
>     >
>     >  It's hard to stay polite about this, for me it has never worked
>     > correctly,
>     > the best way to have sound always going out from audiocard on
>     > linux/ubuntu is about removing pulse-audio,
>     > since ever, everytime.
>
>     It's hard not to get political about this, but for me pulseaudio has
>     always worked as expected and it basically freed me of hassling around
>     with Linux audio issues. The only hassle about it are softwares
>     like Pd
>     that prevent it from working silently by not supporting it.
>
>
> Most of the PA haters were born from using Fedora or Ubuntu between 
> 2008 and 2011 (not exact dates).  Fedora and Ubuntu, as early adopters 
> of about every software package in development, routinely break some 
> kind of important system.  If you were using a sane distro during that 
> time, you probably barely noticed.  I did just enough PA hatin' to 
> remember why.
>
> I thought PA had an alsa plugin, so you wouldn't have to go through 
> portaudio?

Well, if I choose the ALSA API from within Pure Data, it works with 
PulseAudio but it won't share the soundcard with other programs.

-Jonathan

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