[linux-audio-user] Common linux audio layer

[Christoph Eckert]

> the problem is: i install one app, install another app,
> both are outputting sound, and it won't work.

You mean: in the best case, only one of them is putting out 
sound :) .

> you can port open source apps to audio, and blame
> commercial companies to write apps for alsa
> (Id did, the new doom III release has alsa support)

To be honest, they shouldn't support ALSA, they should better 
support the non existing common unix audio layer.

> but u still need to struggle around with alsa
> config, etc.

Yep. And normal users are not able to do so.

> the problem is that it doesn't work out of the box
> like on WinD0w$. well - don't get me wrong, i actually
> like the fact that linux is highly configurable, and
> i personally have no problem to write my .asoundrc,
> but if linux should have success on the desktop, thats
> definitely a must-have.

Yeah, that's my idea. I for mysels can deal with the current 
status, but I have the common user in mind.

And in fact, if we had a common audio layer, this doesn't 
steal you the possibility to tweak every system aspect 
manually.


 Best regards


    ce