[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio and Pulseaudio

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

One use case for Pulse is recording the audio output of another application that
won't work with Jack. Makers of "consumer" soundcards and onboard audio 
stopped including recording the output as a hardware option at about the time
Windows Vista came out, and removed support for existing cards doing this 
from their Windows drivers. This was at the request of Hollywood. Pulseaudio
defeats this crude attempt at DRM utterly. This was the use case that put it 
back on my machines, to defeat efforts at Youtube to interfere with downloading
music videos (or otherwise saving the sound) from their site (over Tor in my case).

On 12/14/2015 at 6:18 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:19:58 +0100, brian at linuxsynths.com wrote:
>>So I guess for me, the best set-up is to do web browsing mostly 
>on a
>>different pc, and use my ubuntu-studio pc for audio work. Not a
>>problem at all, really.
>
>Without any workaround a browser does use ALSA, if jackd isn't 
>running,
>IOW simply don't launch jackd, if you don't need it, launch jackd 
>for
>audio production only.
>
>My HiFi receiver can't play the record player and the CD player at 
>the
>same time, so I'm forced to just listen to a record or a CD, I can 
>not
>listen to a record and a CD at the same time.
>
>Without a workaround ALSA can't be used by jackd and by other 
>software
>at the same time, so we are just forced to use jackd clients or 
>allow
>other clients to access ALSA, it's the same situation as for my 
>HiFi
>amp. However, as long as we don't want to use the browser for 
>audio, we
>even could use a browser while jackd is running.
>
>Listening to a keyboard teaching video, while playing a virtual 
>synth
>at the same time, recording a skype interview for a radio show and
>similar things, are exceptional circumstances. Usually we do one 
>thing
>at a time. There are also exceptional cases when a HiFi amp fails,
>e.g. if you want to listen to a spoken text CD and a music record 
>at the
>same time.
>
>We don't educate children at the same time we do our job, unless 
>the
>job is to educate children. Humans are only good in doing one 
>thing at
>a time. I read that regarding neuroscience even women don't have
>multitasking abilities. If we make music, we usually turn of the 
>radio,
>because for the brain filtering the radio music and keeping focus 
>on the
>music we make, is a very hard task, unless we don't play an 
>instrument
>or sing to the music played by the radio.
>
>IOW it's just a silly hype that there is the need to be able to 
>listen
>to several audio sources on the computer, at the same time, there 
>are
>just a few valid exceptional circumstances, so it would make more
>sense, if pulseaudio would not be the default, since without 
>pulseaudio
>it's still possible to use everything (excepted of sykpe and ...?) 
>and
>since Len didn't mention a single app that hangs or has got delayed
>performance without pulseaudio, I doubt that there are much of 
>those
>apps. On my Linux installs no app ever failed regarding a missing
>pulseaudio.
>-- 
>http://www.grundgesetz-gratis.de/
>Regards,
>Ralf
>
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