xmms & evolution

[Rob Park]

Jack Bowling wrote:
> A user of ALSA would never, ever denigrate it as "needless
> complication".

So then what does it DO? I mean, aside from duplicating hardware 
functionality (multiple-channel audio) in software?

I've had problems with Alsa when I first started using linux, and it 
really put me off ALSA. I don't see any point to having it, except for 
complicating things for no reason.