[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio disables many soud apps

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 23.12.09 10:29, Joerg Anders (jan at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I'm convinced you are all very proud and happy of PulseAudio.
> But read what I had to write to the many NtEd
> 
> (http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml)
> 
> users which have no hardware MIDI synthesizer und rely
> to TiMidity++
> 
>   (http://timidity.sourceforge.net/)
> 
> http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/doc/ch01s50.html
> 
> This text is an own chapter of the NtEd documentation.
> Many users wrote me they cannot longer use the NtEd replay.
> 
> And indeed, as I installed Ubuntu 9.10 or Fedora 11, respectively,
>  - where Pulsaudio is the basic audio system -
> I experienced sound distortions and hanging sound.
> 
> The only remedy: Wipe out PulseAudio! Sometimes it suffices
> to create a Non-PulsAudio-TiMidity++ "by hand". But in some
> tougher cases the only way is to remove PulseAudio from system.
> 
> I'm convinced there are still more sequencer-like applecations
> which have the same problem.

IIRC there's some documentation in the wiki regarding timidity and PA.

Also, I think timidity needs to become normal user code in which
case the big problems should go away.

Lennart

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