On March 18, 2019 5:05:18 AM HST, Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 15:28, Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>
wrote:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 8:26 PM david
<gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Would love to listen to it, but I use Firefox
without PulseAudio
installed, so cannot play anything at SoundCloud.
It sounds to me as if you mean "I cannot listen to any audio from my
web
browser". There's nothing about SoundCloud that requires
PulseAudio - it's just the way your browser gets audio out into the
world.
I'm no fan of PulseAudio but I cannot fathom why anyone would choose
to cut
off their nose to spite their face over this.
Or maybe I'm missing something.
If that's the only option, your position is perfectly rational Paul.
What David might not know is that Firefox can still work just fine
with ALSA, as it does on my computer. It might not be maintained in
Firefox any more (I'm not sure), but the code is still there, enabled
at compile-time with --enable-alsa. Maybe check with your distro
maintainer.
My distro is Debian. They seem to be mandating PulseAudio for Firefox and their Gnome
desktop environment. But I think even the FF65 package I downloaded from Mozilla mandates
PA.
My history with PA is of endless hoop jumping as it always wanted to have all audio go
through either the built-in HDA (not connected to anything), or route it to HDMI (useless
since my monitor has no speakers, anyway.) My external USB device always got ignored.
In general, the only time I need audio from Firefox is when I rarely play something from a
website. Since youtube-dl works on Soundcloud, I'm ok.
--
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community