pulseaudio problems again

[Eric S. Johansson]

Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> Can you please explain why we need a new  audio  system and not using
> alsa directly???

because Alsa is broken.  It does not work well with wine.  It does not work well 
with USB microphones for speech recognition.  It does not support two sound 
devices at the same time.  For example, I listen to Pandora on my laptop 
soundcard and I use speech recognition with my USB headset.  Windows it mostly 
works.  Linux, it bites

> If you want to use a soundserver why not jack or esd?

why was pulse audio built instead of using them?  Ego?  Cluelessness?

> It's really difficult to understand why ubuntu's audiosystem is broken
> for
> people with disabliilities since 7.10.
> this doesn't need money.
> This need only 
> the use of stable software.
> (pa isn't stable yet).

There isn't any stable audio software.  It's all broken from a USB, multiple 
source perspective.  the money is to pay somebody to write code to fix the 
glaring bugs, architectural faults, and missing device drivers.

> 
> What about the working console setup?
> All console screenreaders can't use the audio system when pa starts in
> desktop session.

Another example of brokenness.  Audio developers are not thinking through the 
use cases properly.