The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 12:29:04 UTC 2009


On Saturday 25 April 2009 17:34:25 Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Bill Crawford
>
> <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 April 2009 03:39:43 Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> >> Reading the IRC log, the Fesco members technical arguments sound
> >> limited, and do focus on legacy use cases. That's really 10 years old
> >> stuff (CD line in - PC speaker was mentioned too - unused for me in
> >> that timeframe ...), so if this does not represent less than 5% of
> >> users, I wonder what will.
> >
> > This is one of the most annoying attitudes throughout this debate. I
> > still use a CD line-in on my soundcard. It might be "10 years old" stuff
> > ... my sound card is 7 years old. But it *still works* ... why should I
> > not use it?
>
> - one less cable
> - much lower quality
> - newer readers do not have that output anymore

... doesn't skip if the IDE interface gets some heavy traffic, or my CPU is 
briefly very overloaded?




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