Comments on: Slide around the Sound

By: Ravi Pinjala

Ravi Pinjala — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:22:23 +0000

@ other commenters: What kind of a jerk do you have to be to attack somebody’s work on their blog like that? :/

@ Colin: This sounds like really cool stuff, dealing with layers of volume sliders has always been a pet peeve of mine. Keep up the good work!

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:05:43 +0000

You mean like this article: http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-anti-fud-calm-certainty-and-confidence/ ?

If you only ever run applications that use Phonon as it’s API then you’ll be fine with just Phonon. That however is a very, very limited subset of audio applications and certainly doesn’t contribute in any way to solving sound problems on Linux which is my goal.

By: jospoortvliet

jospoortvliet — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:58:26 +0000

I would still really apreciate a good write-up somewhere about the need for Pulse Audio. Given Phonon and what it is supposed to do I don’t really get what PA should be solving…. I’ve just been googling but most sources write about how it sucks to have several audio systems (xine, gstreamer etc) and that’s an issue KDE users don’t have thanks to phonon… So is it only good for Gnome and do we, as in KDE users, now suffer because PA, unstable as it still is, is being pushed to fix the gnome audio stack?

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:47:41 +0000

Whereas I do agree that the alsa needs to be fixed. This is still not the case.
Moreover, just at the beginning of the week, i had to help my girlfriend solve a sound issue ( no sound after a reboot ). The only way to fix it was to make her open a terminal and start aumix-text ! All of this by phone !

What I’m saying is the fact to allow to show raw ALSA mixers elements by just doing : kmix -> Configure -> show hardware mixers.

By: Livio

Livio — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:49:12 +0000

Then great .

I’m looking forward to controlling per-app volume from KMix tray icon (if it’s not yet possible – I have to test Mandriva again) :] .

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:11:44 +0000

Ahh nice. That looks promising too I’m sure the PA nay-sayers would rather this just worked on top of KMix rather than talking directly to PA but I know that once you get your head into the PA API it’s actually quite easy to work out Well done that guy!

By: Asweek

Asweek — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:00:35 +0000

Did you saw this Plasma widget to control PulseAudio?
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=116676

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:46:43 +0000

Yeah all of them are for upstream. The kmix changes landed in trunk this morning and the others have been committed as and when they were ready

By: Livio

Livio — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:41:14 +0000

Are you sending these patches upstream?

By: kriko

kriko — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:05:28 +0000

I hope newer pulseaudio is better. Maybe an athlon 64 3000+ is not adequate for smooth audio playback with pulseaudio. :/