Open Sound System

On Ubuntu/Debian, alsa-utils package can be modified and patched with quilt, and recompiled with devscripts. Very good, but it is not a job for me. Personally I have no use for aplay or any other alsa-utils (with the exception of alsamixer that can be used to set volume controls.) Presumably there ...

Could you patch aplay to enable "exclusive mode"? Firstly I verified that aplay is not using exclusive mode. I can run it to play one file while audacity is playing another. I did not write the ALSA stuff in Linrad myself, but the code is similar to the code in aplay. In aplay.c, line 208...

If you do not trust Petrov's ALSA plugin, you may try to create your own ALSA plugin to enable the true "exclusive mode" for ALSA. In my program, linrad, a user who runs with ALSA and with device 0 selected as the default device can do the following observations: 1) audacity runs fine if ...

It seems that a large majority of OSS4 users are using OSS4 exactly because they hear the difference. Otherwise, they might be perfectly happy with ALSA. This is clear. What I wanted to say is simply that the reason is to find in the applications and not in ALSA or OSS. As we all know, OSS is the o...

1. Do you hear that noise in the audio track of your video? (YES or NO) YES. You expose your total lack of understanding - or maybe the total disrespect of other people. My video is recorded with a Canon S110 camera. That includes the sound. The recording was made in a noisy environment which shoul...

igorzwx wrote: If you do not hear that noise in the audio track of your video, you should not be able to hear the difference between ALSA and OSS4, as well as the difference between HiRes audio and CD format. All these are symptoms of deafness, and deafness correlates with stupidity. I am sorry, yo...

igorzwx wrote: > Have you noticed some audible noise in your video? I am a radio developer. I do signal analysis with advanced methods and I note differences very much smaller than a human ear can distinguish. There is absolutely no difference at all between OSS and ALSA provided the user knows how ...

Hello, I was pointed to this forum by someone who had looked at my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_DlDSqJ8yk . In this video I am comparing 4Front OSS and ALSA. In both cases the data is the unmodified raw data supplied by the soundcard as is mandatory for a SDR (Software Defined Radio...