[ale] Sound question

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On 02/10/2010 01:24 PM, JK wrote:
> So my question is, WTF is up with sound on Linux?  In the old days,
> one would simply read audio from /dev/dsp and write audio to
> /dev/audio, and that worked fine.  Now there are so many acronyms
> and packages involved that I have absolutely no idea what they're
> all doing.  Is there an overview document somewhere?  Or is anyone
> here doing realtime audio processing on a Linux box?

These might help a bit

http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis

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All the best,
Brian Pitts