On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:41 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

with jackd in the middle than using it directly. If it were, Jack would
be sort-of pointless compared to something like alsalib.

Even though you wrote "sort-of", it still needs a comment.

Alsalib is very low-level, and shouldn't really be used by any

type of software except for libraries like jack, pulseaudio,

portaudio, etc. that provides more high level audio APIs.

I would think there's been billions (or at least thousands)

of bugs in the linux audio world because people have

have misunderstood the point of alsalib, and used it

directly in their application instead of a higher level library.