[linux-audio-user] Common linux audio layer

[Janina Sajka]

Christoph Eckert writes:
> 
> > He wants to be able to start an audio app and hear it's
> > output. He doesn't want to see a dialog box pop-up
> > exclaiming that the audio device is blocked by another app.
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> Furthermore, a common interface for audio programmers (»Make 
> your application a jack client«) would be great. Normal 
> applications shouldn't access an audio device exclusively.
> 
> KDE and Gnome will always have an underlaying soundserver. at 
> least for portability issues. That's absolutely OK, as long 
> that their servers talk - maybe - to jack instead of grabbing 
> the device exclusively.
> 

The objection I hear most is that jack doesn't support network audio.
I'd be very interested to hear reactions to that as we are about to have
an Accessibility Workgroup (Free Standards Group) face to face meeting
where accessibility requirements for common audio will be on the table.

> 
>  Best regards & thanks for all thoughts
> 
> 
>     ce

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