Fedora 11 nerfed my mixer

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Thu Apr 23 21:30:39 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 22:57 +0200, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > You are forgetting one thing: PA is a desktop sound server, not a pro
> > audio sound server or anything for music production.
> > 
> > And that's why input monitoring doesn't make much sense for PA and I
> > don't plan to support it. If you do pro audio, then don't use PA. Use
> > JACK and use the raw ALSA. 
> 
> I wouldn't consider "input monitoring" a pro-audio feature. I recently 
> spent about 4 years at university, getting a degree. I've seen quite a lot 
> of people there having no audio equipment at all except a notebook or a 
> computer with some external speakers.
> 
> Many of them had a mp3 player or a minidisc player connected to the line
> in and played their music through the speakers of their computer.
> 
> I'm certain these people were not pro-audio guys or anything but the 
> standard Windows XP desktop user. So maybe it would be worthwile 
> considering their usecase desktop-audio worthy?
> 
> Just saying...

... See, I'm not the only one.

Lennart, you are not God. You can not foresee every use case.
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