19 Jun
2005
19 Jun
'05
7:31 p.m.
Hi,
personally, if i knew it would help, i wouldn't
mind
spending time patching existing apps and submitting patches
to their coders, if it brought everyone into a 'common
base' that could be further exploited to put linux audio in
a better state.
much appreciated. You're welcome :) . But first of all we need
the "big picture".
[...]
all it takes is for us to make a concerted effort at
solving the situation, get *one* distro leader to get
behind the effort and add our solution to their next
release, and it'll snowball from there.
Forget it. The distros put packages together (that's their
first job) and create installers and configuration GUIs. They
do not help improving packages.
We "simply" need to do the job - independent from any distro.
It's like DMIX. It would have been easy to include it some
time ago but they didn't. Now DMIX is part of ALSA per
default and they say "Buy me I have now softwaremixing
included". As if Mandriva or any other had written it...
[...]
i think the hard work done by the core linux audio
developers is far, far, far, under-appreciated for the
advances made; certainly Jack and Ardour and co., are a
formidable base to work from.
Jep.
but the fact is: it -is- a mess.
Jep. But as told by another participiant, the mess is mainly
valid for the Multimedia/Consumer desktop. Audio for the
active musician is relatively simple. Install JACK, qjackctl
and the desired apps and you're done. And desktop audio is a
thing which has a minor priority for most of us. BUt I'd like
to see that even consumers can benefit from the worthy work
already done.
[...]
yeah, and to be fair, i honestly don't think that
distro's
are the arena to solve this problem, yet. distro's simply
package whats there, get it working for their architecture
ideology, and leave it at that.
Jep.
its the coders who do the actual hard work who will
have to
start this effort.
[...]
honestly, i don't think this is a distro problem,
i think
its a "Linux Audio Software Developers" problem, and as a
group we ought to present the ideal solution, and convince
the distro vendors to adopt it, because it works.
Ithink that there will be no much active help from members of
this community. Most people here are interested in software
synthesis or similar digital audio work...
[...]
its too confusing, as it stands right now. we need a
big,
overall picture of the scene:
...but this community is the right place to collect ideas and
hopefully to design the big picture. If this community is not
able to do it, noone will do it.
[...]
i think this dicussion has borne a lot of fruit,
personally. we ought to build this 'big Audio App chart',
though, to give us a better view of the current scene.
I guess that most people here do not want to spend time doing
this work, and that's OK. Someone needs to do this work, and
ask questions in this forum. That's all.
[...]
Best regards
ce