Open Sound System

I am not really waiting because I don't actually need Audacity to record. And everything else works just fine. Maybe I'm a bit uncomfortable about being stuck with Skype 2.0 OSS static but that's not related to distro.
PS If you seriously want to know ASP release schedule please ask ASP about that.

ASP Linux 14 (FC9-based), OSS 4. I use bash scripts based on ossrecord. mencoder also does the job perfectly. But recording via Audacity would be handy, occasionally. If you say it was fixed recently in Ubuntu, probably the next ASP will also have it - let's see. P.S. OSS 4.2 (b 2002/200911060811) (...

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind, but for now I'll just stick with old "Skype OSS static" because I don't want to modify all my recording scripts. I hope apps like Amarok, mplayer, Audacity, Flash, Wine will never drop support for OSS and ALSA in favour of something as stupid as PA.

This also does NOT work:

Like Audacity, it "starts" recording but does not receive any sound data.

Any ideas, how to record sound from ALSA app?

Yes it works (mostly)! BTW, here's a page about the file on ALSA Wiki, it doesn't mention OSS output but there's another useful info, like creating multi channel devices and etc.: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/.asoundrc Here's what I have now: pcm.!default { type oss device /dev/dsp4 } pcm.HD_Fr...

I don't need to configure PulseAudio's defaults, I need to configure audio I/O per application, which is not possible. I have 2 sound cards, first one's input is connected to a mixing console out and is used for audio measurement and sound digitizing and the second one is used for Skype. I cannot sw...

I just tried latest static Skype in ASP Linux 14 (FC9-based) and it shows only PulseAudio. It s*cks because PulseAuido is an unconfigurable crap and there is no way to select certain dsp# on certain card. Is there any way to force Skype to use ALSA (if not OSS)?

I use the following /etc/asound.conf to have ALSA apps output sound to my second sound card: pcm.!default { type oss device /dev/dsp6 } ctl.!default { type oss device /dev/mixer2 } But, is it possible to add one more sound output and 2 sound inputs? Quick googling somehow didn't help.

Did Skype stop providing OSS support?! Shouldn't we all go and start bugging them to resume it then?

It might be possible to gracefully quit VirtualBox by using some custom signal in kill (SIGSTOP?) Then you have to wait until it closes using something like while [ `ps -A | grep VirtualBox`..... (I never can remember the stupid bash syntax).

What about MIDI synthesizer?
I'd love to finally see support for emu10k1 SF2 MIDI, or at least software synthesizer working in apps.