On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Cedric Roux <sed@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> I make my own software. I just need simple
> layers below so I don't spend zillions of hours lost in billions of
> functions of the API dispersed in trillions of include files. And
> ALSA is not very, how say, "hacker-friendly."
Why do you think I wrote JACK in the first place? :))
> The other day I wanted
> to redirect audio output to a file, I spent the whole day digging for
> the correct configuration file I had to write with all thoses slaves
> everywhere that don't make a lot of sense at first.
Yeah, well come back and let me know what you think after you've
grappled with CoreAudio, DirectSound and WinMME/WaveOut. You might
revise your sense of how "hacker friendly" ALSA is after that
experience. The grass is always greener, except when its windows or OS
X audio APIs on the other side.
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