Re: Sound on Fedora-8: what a mess!

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On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 23:31 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> By "competing for use" I mean "competing for use at the same time".
> I don't mind different file types linking to different programs,
> as long as the link is reasonably transparent.
> But I don't want several programs being linked to the same file-type,
> as seems the case here, unless I am explicitly asked
> which I want to use.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I have several audio players, one is
the default for each file type. Double clicking on a file opens the
default player. If I want to use a different player I right click and
choose another player from the pop-up menu. This seems like a pretty
good system to me.

> I'm not sure what the second sentence means.
> Why is pulseaudio sitting there?
> And what exactly is its function in this case,

>From the PulseAudio web page:

A sound server can serve many functions:

      * Software mixing of multiple audio streams, bypassing any
        restrictions the hardware has.
      * Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or
        record audio on a different machine than the one it is running
        on.
      * Sound API abstraction, alleviating the need for multiple
        backends in applications to handle the wide diversity of sound
        systems out there.
      * Generic hardware abstraction, giving the possibility of doing
        things like individual volumes per application.



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