[linux-audio-user] recording multiple input audio streams

[Patrick Shirkey]

Paul Perkins wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2003 01:30 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
>>Paul Perkins wrote:
>>
>>>... and I'm still waiting for the day when someone explains ALSA 
>>>configuration files
>>>in a way that I can understand....
>>
>>Halt who goes there lurker?
>>
>>What don't you understand?
>>
>>Have you read the docs? wiki et al...
> 
> 
> What don't I understand? I would like to see each concept that the ALSA 
> configuration file language is intended to be able to express, and then the 
> syntax used to express that concept. Then some examples with clear 
> explanations of why each thing in the config file was put there. As in a good 
> programming language tutorial. What I've seen instead is a lot of chunks of 
> strange-looking syntax "explained" by saying "try stuffing this in <some file 
> somewhere>, and good luck." Which leaves me blundering around in the dark, 
> hoping to get lucky :-).
> 

Well there is the documents in the online install guide, The alsa wiki, 
Jans howto, and finally the programmer docs have detailed info on the 
alsa plugins which you use in the asoundrc.

The latter is the one you will find most revealing about all the syntax 
variations. Be aware that after reading that you will have crossed over 
from being determined newbie to partly educated newbie. The doc is 
designed for programmers and anyone who wants to use an asoundrc at that 
level is expected not to be averse to getting their hands dirty.

> I've read a lot of the docs, but of course not everything on the whole web, 
> especially as new stuff appears all the time. What would you recommend that I 
> read specifically?
> 

This really depends on how far you are willing to go. "Don't bend the 
spoon... Let the spoon bend you..."


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