[linux-audio-dev] Juce now has ALSA support!

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 12:51 +0000, Julian Storer wrote:
> James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> > Julian Storer wrote:
> >
> >> Am I right in assuming that by default you mean the "plughw:" 
> >> devices? On my machine the plughw: device glitched constantly, but 
> >> the hw: devices worked really well. There was also some other reason 
> >> I chose that.. can't remember offhand what it was though.
> >
> > "default" means just that. use the name "default" instead of 
> > plughw:.... or hw:0,0
> > If the device glitched when using "plughw:" then it is a bug in ALSA 
> > or your application.
> > How is you application deciding on sample rate?
> 
> > There is no sensible reason to ever use the "hw:0,0" device. Always 
> > use the "plug:front" and friends.
> > If an application only works with "hw:0,0" it has been written wrongly.
> >
> Ok, at the risk of "spreading the myth" that the ALSA documentation is 
> bad... is this stuff actually explained anywhere?? It took me a day of 
> googling just to find out what the two numbers after "hw" meant! I never 
> saw anything mention "default" or "plug:front", etc.
> 
> Not sure if it'd be appropriate anyway, though, as my API exposes a list 
> of drivers and lets the user choose which one to use, and the sample 
> rate, rather than just using the default driver.

Yes, see the links to the ALSA documentation I posted in my last
message.  You also could have searched the mailing list archives.

Lee