Linked by Rahul on Wed 15th Apr 2009 08:58 UTC
PulseAudio 0.9.15 has been released with many new features. Phoronix covers the changes: "PulseAudio 0.9.15 introduces native support of Bluetooth audio devices using BlueZ, Apple Airport Express support, flat volume support (similar to Vista's audio controls), on-the-fly reconfiguration of audio devices, and native support for 24-bit samples. The on-the-fly reconfiguration of audio devices is great and as a result there is now proper S/PDIF support. With the release of PulseAudio 0.9.15 also comes an update to the PulseAudio Volume Control program. The PulseAudio Volume Control 0.9.8 update brings support for configuring sound card profiles and various other updates."
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2006-02-25
As audio developer, i couldn't more than agree. ALSA is a painful, extremely over-complex api and library in comparison and it really is unnecesary. It handles multiple stream mixing in userland (as opposed to kernel in OSS4), which generates all sort of exclusive access problems when you want to mix low latency and normal latency apps, and makes configuration through asound.conf _HELL_. OSS4 is a much better, simpler, solution and design and since it's opensource now, i can only wish linux distros would start shipping with it and deprecating ALSA. The only good side of ALSA is that it has better support for professional sound cards, although most are, of course, still half implemented anyway.