• Outsider9042@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Been around since OSS and ALSA was the new kid on the block. Yet to experience these supposed sound issues.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      3 hours ago

      You must have been blessed by the hardware gods. I had several scripts bound to hotkeys to fix various issues that would occur regularly and this was only 5 or so years ago. Volume would reset, wrong sink would get selected, it would crash, it would crackle, it had bad latency but most of the time it was fine.

    • insufferableninja@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      I 'member having to use a script to do software mixing of multiple audio streams in alsa, so I could listen to a music CD while playing WOW. Otherwise whichever thing started first would grab the audio device and the other thing couldn’t use it. This would’ve been back in like 2006-7.

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      5 hours ago

      Same, I have it running on several different laptops/desktops, it’s probably a certain piece of hardware.

      I’m sure it’s happening to people, just not everyone.