[linux-audio-dev] Re: Which audio lib?

[Andrew Burgess]

>Hmmm, I think the alsa api is a bit huge/complicated. I would never 
>reccomend doing alsa directly, and I think it was a very bad advice 
>actually. Check out portaudio, sndlib or jack instead, which provides 
>easier interface to the soundcard than alsa, and works on top of alsa (and 
>others).

Portaudio doesn't support mixers so you still need some alsa or oss
code.