Re: [linux-audio-user] ALSA: What is the website missing?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ALSA: What is the website missing?
From: Benjamin Flaming (lau_AT_solobanjo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 02:42:31 EET


Here's another vote in favor of this. I suspect that .asoundrc is probably
ALSA's most powerful and underused feature - simply due to lack of accessible
documentation. Suggested TOC:

- What is .asoundrc
- What you can do with .asoundrc
- What you *cannot* do with .asoundrc
- Basic syntax
- Examples

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On Monday 01 December 2003 04:53 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:36, Reuben Martin wrote:
> > There is currently some documentation on the different pcm plugins, but
> > what I haven't found is a very good reference on the correct syntax to be
> > used within asoundrc. For instance, should lines be terminated by a
> > semicolon? I've seen esxamples with and without and both seem to work.
> > Are there limitations to when OOP notation can be used? These are just a
> > few questions I have, I'm sure other people have some as well.
> >
> > regards
> > -Reuben
>
> Yes! Very important stuff that I cannot figure out. I've tried all kinds
> of things in my .asoundrc file over the last year and none of them have
> ever produced the results I hoped for. I think there's supposed to be a
> lot of power there, but I Cannot harness it.
>
> Even just a bunch of simple examples as test cases would be really
> helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark


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