pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[Tim]

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 13:20 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What exactly is pulseaudio meant to give someone like me,
> who is only interested in the most basic aspects of computer sound?
> The furthest my ambitions would ever reach
> would be to plug headphones into my laptop and listen to Bob Dylan.

I gave an example to that the other day, in a reply to Gene, I think.

In a nutshell, more than one sound playable at a time (e.g. some alert
while you're listening to your music) without one messing up the other.
And the ability to control the volume of each completely independent of
the other.

Of course if it worked painlessly, you'd get such benefits without
noticing it.

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