[wellylug] Linux sound -- opinions needed ... please.

[Jonathan Harker]

On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 3:46 pm, Nigel Walters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First off I don't have any problems actually getting things to work. I am
> just not sure which is the best of a number of choices.
>
> Firstly at the kernel level there is the choice between OSS and ALSA. At
> the moment I am using OSS stuff and will switch to ALSA when I get round to
> it.
>
> Next the choice of sound servers

What do you want to use them for? Specifically, are you just playing mp3s or 
are you doing audio editing, video work etc?

Arts is fine for general use, but if you want to do any professional audio 
work, you'll need a proper low-latency server like jack, which runs on alsa.

J


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