[LAD] Do professionals use Pulse Audio? ; xfce4-mixer

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 17:37:29 CEST 2018


On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Spencer Jackson <ssjackson71 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I know of several linux pro-audio users who do not have pulse installed,
> but I think more of the ones I talk with are like me: we have pulseaudio
> for most "desktop audio" stuff like web browsing, listening to music,
> etc... all generic tasks. Its perfectly good for that! But as soon as we go
> to produce some music we use pasuspender or other methods that bypass
> pulseaudio and use JACK or pure alsa. I don't have any real numbers but I
> think thats pretty common. So my suggestion is if you aren't actually doing
> audio production don't fear pulse.
>

I typically run Jack 100% of the time and just have PA running as a client,
so I can still use web browser, VLC, etc, as needed.

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Brett W. McCoy -- https://www.facebook.com/idragosani
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