Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix

Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by cycloptic on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:35PM (#26059259)

I'm not sure what you mean. Pipewire goes out of its way to have ABI compatibility, so all your old applications using Pulse/Jack will just work.

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by account42 on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:41AM (#26065057)

What about ALSA or OSS applications?

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by cycloptic on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:02PM (#26069369)

I believe there is a pipewire ALSA module, and for OSS there are (were?) numerous ways to get that emulated in ALSA.

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by account42 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:42AM (#26075216)

Ok so it should not be worse than pre-PipeWire at least. Too bad Linux can't just make /dev/dsp be usable by multiple applications like the *BSDs managed.

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