16 Jun
2005
16 Jun
'05
7:33 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:50 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
but more broadly, windows is not the gold standard
here, OS X is, and
the truth is that apple have designed a much better system from day one.
on OS X, things do work more or less the way jwz and many other people
think they should. JACK gets close, and in a few ways (inter-app
connectivity) betters CoreAudio, but it is not a general purpose audio
API and there are no whipmasters to force mplayer, skype, and rest of
the desktop app developers to use it.
Out of interest, what APIs do you think GNOME and KDE should provide for
sound?
It would be great to standardize on one set of APIs that provided
support for both general purpose and professional quality audio apps
(and all working together happily).
Damon