[LAD] ALSA audio

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 07:01:16PM +0000, Will Godfrey wrote:
 
> > If the ALSA API seems too much too handle, use a library
> > such as zita-alsa-pcmi to take care of the complexity, and
> > use it with a hw: device, not a plughw: one. All my apps 
> > that provide access to ALSA directly (rather than via Jack)
> > use it - it replaces around a thousand lines of code in each
> > of them and provides a very easy to use interface. 
>
> That was fast :)
> 
> Thanks for the info. Just tried the examples. They certainly seem to be
> lightweight.
> 
> ... they also proved that I was 'doing it wrong' and a KA6 USB card is
> accessible! 

Just let me know if you need more info on the API.

In general, anyhing that works with Jack via ALSA should
work with alsa-pcmi as well, if not I will fix it.

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FA

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