[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio, PortAudio or what to use as application developer?

[Jonas Finnemann Jensen]

Hi,

I don't know if this is the right list to post this question, if not I'm
very sorry and feel free to ignore me :)
(I think maybe this should have gone to PortAudio list, but it's down for
the moment).

I'm doing a free platform independent application in C# using mono... Now I
wish to do audio playback, so far I've found some C# bindings for PortAudio,
and as far as I can see it should be easy to include and distribute
PortAudio in a windows release...

However, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, and when playing music with PortAudio
other applications can't play anything... I think this is because PortAudio
uses ALSA directly...

I'd admit that I don't know much about audio playback and sound
architecture... But should I be using PulseAudio instead of PortAudio, or
should I use some specific backend in PortAudio, or a specific setting for
ALSA when using it from PortAudio?

What is the most portable and easy way to audio playback, from the
applications developers perspective?
And how do I avoid blocking other applications from playing sounds?

--
Regards Jonas Finnemann Jensen.
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