Comments on: The Magic Lamp of Standardization http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/12/12/the-magic-lamp-of-standardization/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:40:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: AdamW http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/12/12/the-magic-lamp-of-standardization/comment-page-1/#comment-695 AdamW Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/12/12/the-magic-lamp-of-standardization/#comment-695 The biggest problem with Linux audio is simply that ALSA is on crack and its developers would not know what user-friendliness was if it came up and smacked them in the face. Their idea of a sensible development process is to either a) rename all the channels for a given card or b) leave the names the same but reverse the functions of them, for every card, every second ALSA release. And then not tell anyone about it.<p/>As for trying to have some kind of standardization for the names and functions of channels across different cards...forget about it.<p/>Technically speaking, ALSA's a great project. From the point of view of any poor sod user who actually has to do something to make it work, it's a freaking nightmare.<p/>Personally I reckon if this problem was solved, a lot of the others would suddenly get fixed too. The biggest problem with Linux audio is simply that ALSA is on crack and its developers would not know what user-friendliness was if it came up and smacked them in the face. Their idea of a sensible development process is to either a) rename all the channels for a given card or b) leave the names the same but reverse the functions of them, for every card, every second ALSA release. And then not tell anyone about it.

As for trying to have some kind of standardization for the names and functions of channels across different cards…forget about it.

Technically speaking, ALSA’s a great project. From the point of view of any poor sod user who actually has to do something to make it work, it’s a freaking nightmare.

Personally I reckon if this problem was solved, a lot of the others would suddenly get fixed too.

]]> By: Robert http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/12/12/the-magic-lamp-of-standardization/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Robert Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2006/12/12/the-magic-lamp-of-standardization/#comment-696 I wouldn't be so sure about MacOS and 'pro audio'. The pd community are always getting migrations from MacOS to linux/jack to get the latencies they need for live performance. I wouldn’t be so sure about MacOS and ‘pro audio’. The pd community are always getting migrations from MacOS to linux/jack to get the latencies they need for live performance.

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