[PD] [PD-dev] audio apis

[katja]

On my Panasonic CF-19 with Xubuntu and Kubuntu I have PulseAudio
disabled almost permanently, because it's limited mixer options does
not give access to all soundcard options. Built-in speaker always
sounds together with headphone output. Alsamixer gives the separate
controls, but is overruled when PulseAudio is running. So I'm not fond
of PulseAudio as it is now.

By the way, how do you guys use Pd with PulseAudio? I wanted to
connect Pd (extended 0.44) with SoundWire
(http://georgielabs.99k.org/SoundWireHelp.html), which needs
PulseAudio running. But the only working options from Pd's Media menu
are Alsa or Jack, and they both seem to steal the audio from Pulse...

Katja

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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> 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.)
>> > >
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>> >  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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> I thought PA had an alsa plugin, so you wouldn't have to go through
> portaudio?
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> 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.
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> -Jonathan
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