AW: need suggestions for sound GUIs [was: Re: Configuring sound output on Lubuntu 14.4]

[leszek.lesner at web.de]

The easiest way is pulseaudio if you don't want to fiddle with the asoundrc manually as no mixer even not xfce4-mixer allows you to change the default audio device.

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Von: Walter Lapchynski
Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2014 20:21
An: Leszek Lesner; lubuntu user list; Marc Tremblay
Betreff: need suggestions for sound GUIs [was: Re: Configuring sound output on Lubuntu 14.4]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de> wrote:
> If your computers are powerfull enough I would recommend installing the
> package
> pulseaudio
> and
> pavucontrol

I do not recommend this. People will disagree with me, but pulse is a
bloated and unnecessary. It adds extra layers on top of ALSA that have
no real value. This is inconsistent with the goals of Lubuntu. If
you're doing music production, I'd simply suggest JACK. But for just
having sound for browsers and such ALSA is good enough. This is
especially true for Marc as I know he's dealing with older machines.

There was much discussion in the past about having a GUI for sound control:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lubuntu-brainstorming/+spec/sound-mixer

I think we need to revisit this discussion, personally.

I might throw down for xfce4-mixer.
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