[Fedora-music-list] A quick spin vox-pop

[Brendan Jones]

On 10/30/2012 07:58 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> One suggestion about the spin
>
> Since it's KDE, there is no need to use pulseaudio. One elegant
> alternative would be to exclude pulseaudio and include alsa-jack-plugin
> providing a system wide alsa configuration (/etc/asound.conf) like this:
>
> pcm.rawjack {
>      type jack
>      playback_ports {
>          0 system:playback_1
>          1 system:playback_2
>      }
>      capture_ports {
>          0 system:capture_1
>          1 system:capture_2
>      }
> }
>
> pcm.jack {
>      type plug
>      slave { pcm "rawjack" }
>      hint {
>          description "JACK Audio Connection Kit"
>      }
> }
>
> pcm.!default {
>      type plug
>      slave { pcm "rawjack" }
> }
>

I would caution against removing pulse from the Spin. There's no need as 
long as we have and easy way to turn it off - either by using Jorns app 
or providing concise easy to access documentation on the wiki (there may 
be some overlap with the musicians guide here). Arch have been doing 
this really well for some time [1][2][3] and we could provide something 
similar.

Pulse achieves what it set out to really well I think but its domain is 
really not pro audio. Its a complicated beast and often where's the 
blame for bugs in ALSA and the kernel. An updated Common Pulseaduio 
troubleshooting wiki would be really useful here.

The pulse commit lists for some time now and they seem to be really 
active and very receptive to answering questions. We should start 
forwarding more bugs upstream. I'm watching the bugs as they come in and 
hopefully will have more time to act on them once F18 is released.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pro_Audio
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit