On Tuesday 16 December 2008 11:51:12 Hartmut Noack wrote: > Ufuk schrieb: > > Also I need to know if pulseaudio provides better sound quality with the > > apps. and Jack. > > There is no difference. Soundservers have no influence on the sound > quality - they just transport, what apps have to offer and send it to a > soundcard, that has all the influence on quality. > > It is thinkable though, that a soundserver can be configured to > manipulate soundstreams with FX like EQ or Normalizers in the signal > path. Such a configuration would be a severe misconfiguration, I'd say... > Pulseaudio can be configured that way but I strongly hope, it is not and > will not be ...
Thank you for your clarification of the issues. I think pulseaudio just gives more control to adjust volume level of running applications as clients and provides a modular configuration compared to just using alsa. Bu I also think most of us don't need such control, we can just use a mixer of what we want and adjust everything manually (I mean which suits the situation). So, I assume that I don't really need pulseaudio. > > > If it doesn't, I will return to alsa and remove all pulseaudio > > packages. > > ALSA is allways present - it is the very sounddriver, pulseaudio, > xinelib/phonon and even jack himself are only overlays that use ALSA. > > Nevertheless: if you are into music and pulseaudio interferes with jackd > in any way, remove pulseaudio: it has nothing to offer for musicians and > little for desktop audio. With a xinelib that is jack-aware you can > start jackd as you start your Desktop and close it, as you go to bed... > > It was promised, that pulseaudio should be jack-aware also - is that so? > I had some trouble with that so I dropped pulse on Intrepid (works > perfectly well for me...) I know alsa is always present. But if I don't remove pulse audio packages, there can be some misconfigurations (for example, alsamixer uses pulse audio as default and doesn't let me to adjust volume, but sure I can do alsamixer -Dhw for it, it is not a big deal). And removing alsa also removes ubuntu-desktop meta package or ubuntustudio-desktop meta package, though it is not important, I really wonder why such an unstable and conflicting thing like pulseaudio is a part of the desktop meta packages. > > best regs > > HZN Thanks. -- http://ufuxlinux.com
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