[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#568588: Bug#568588: mpd: MPD default config doesn't allow multiple programs to share audio output via ALSA

[Alexander Wirt]

Yury Bulka schrieb am Monday, den 17. December 2012:

> I completely agree with Konstantin Khomoutov. All the apps like web
> browsers and vlc are able to use dmix without any noticeable loss of
> sound quality. Also, vlc with dmix for some reason still uses less CPU
> than mpd without dmix.
> 
> With firefox there's another problem: when a video (html5 or flash) has
> been played, the program still sits on the audio device until the
> browser is restarted. This is definitely not a good behavior but it is a
> problem if something like MPD wants to have exclusive access to the
> hardware.
> 
> I believe that only realtime production-critical programs like jackd
> should use hw:0 by default. MPD is just another media player like vlc or
> mplayer. Alsa developers decided to enable dmix by default, and why we
> are reverting their decision on a per-program basis? Why ALSA has a
> "default" device at all then? Isn't it actually designed to be used by
> default?
I plan to orphan mpd soon. Feel free to take over.

Alex
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