On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 08:19:06PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Joel Roth via Dng said on Mon, 4 Dec 2023 12:11:01 -1000
>
> >Depending on your use habits, you might be able to manage
> >comfortably without PA at all.
>
> My computer is set up Alsa only and I have no complaints. For those few
> programs sabotaged to require Pulseaudio, I run them through apulse,
> which often works. I think the most time consuming thing is going
> through all your sound playing programs and setting them to Alsa output
> instead of pulseaudio.
>
> Anyone know whether this pipewire thing is any good?
>
> Has anyone here ever successfully set up Jack? I've failed many times.

Yes, found it very easy. It is useful if you're producing music
and connecting several audio programs together.

This command starts jack on the first soundcard:

jackd -v -d alsa -d hw:0,0 -r 44100

Then to play a file:

ecasound -i test.wav -o jack,system

Because alsa is still underneath you have
to make sure your relevant mixer settings are
unmuted. I use aumix these days, the cli version.




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>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
>
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