Speakers and sound configuration tool

[Dylan McCall]

I have one suggestion for this suggestion: The user should have some means
of testing his setup. It can be quite difficult to be certain when a
surround sound setup is actually plugged in correctly, and playing random
sounds is not always helpful. I think one powerful possibility would be a
test system with a spinning dot that emits a sound, possibly following the
mouse pointer. This way, the user has control over where the sound is coming
from as well as the ability to test how well in-between sounds (coming from
multiple speakers at once) work.
Another thing needing some audio feedback is the balance adjustment, which
should really have a light humming noise as it is adjusted in order to find
the perfect spot, but I suppose that would be the volume control's problem.

Anyway, you can ignore my unimaginative suggestions. Basically, need speaker
tester :)

Bye,
-Dylan McCall

On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Piotr Zaryk <oponek at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure it's too late for Hardy. It's an LTS and new, unstable features
> are not welcome. Yes, I think we should make it for the next release. Please
> edit the feature description on the ubuntu wiki if you have got some ideas.
>
> 2008/2/4, Evan <eapache at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I like the look of this, but it's probably too late to make it to Hardy.
> > Maybe Hardy+1?
> >
> > On 2/4/08, Thomas Novin <thnov at xyz.pp.se> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:37 +0100, Piotr Zaryk wrote:
> > > > What do you think about it?
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Really nice idea and initiative! I went crazy trying to get SP/DIF
> > > working with my AC'97 sound card through asoundrc-configuration. I
> > > actually never got it working perfectly since I could only play from
> > > one
> > > source at a time. To be able to solve this via a simple gui would be
> > > heaven.
> > >
> > > Rgds,
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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> Piotr Zaryk
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