The Sound of Fedora 11 (MadRhetoric)
A lot of the changes we introduced with PA are not directly visible to the user. For example the so called 'glitch-free' logic in PA is very important for a modern audio stack, however the normal user will never notice it -- except maybe because when we introduced it initially a lot of driver bugs got exposed that people were not aware of before because that driver functionality (usually timing related) was not really depended on by any application. In fact even now many of the older drivers expose broken timing that makes usage with PA not as much fun as it could be."
Posted May 22, 2009 20:32 UTC (Fri)
by jengelh (guest, #33263)
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Posted May 22, 2009 20:40 UTC (Fri)
by scottt (guest, #5028)
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Posted May 22, 2009 21:04 UTC (Fri)
by jengelh (guest, #33263)
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Posted May 22, 2009 21:26 UTC (Fri)
by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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Posted May 23, 2009 17:51 UTC (Sat)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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So you link up your bluetooth headset or whatever using the gnome bluetooth stuff or whatever your favorite way to do that. Then you need to use hcitool to find out the address of your bluetooth headset.
Then you need to create this asoundrc, or add it to your asoundrc:
Then set that as the default device or use whatever alsa-aware application you prefer and have it use the 'bluetooth' device. Not too difficult and it works reliably.
Also about as desktop friendly as a eyeball laceration.
Posted May 23, 2009 21:09 UTC (Sat)
by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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Posted May 26, 2009 9:47 UTC (Tue)
by nye (subscriber, #51576)
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Plugging in a USB headset on the other hand just works without issue.
Posted May 26, 2009 15:39 UTC (Tue)
by foom (subscriber, #14868)
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It's not exactly rare: many (most?) laptops come with integrated Bluetooth these days.
Posted May 26, 2009 19:55 UTC (Tue)
by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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There are lots of things wrong with bluetooth but availability is not one of them!
Personally, I just replaced my USB headphones with over-ear bluetooth headphones and, although their audio quality is lacking, I'd hate to go back. May I go the rest of my life without needing to untangle the cord from my office chair again, or forgetting that the headphones are around my neck as I walk away.
Now, why do all bluetooth headphones and headsets have that awful 1-button interface?? Press for 2 seconds to turn on, 3 seconds to turn off, 4 seconds to pair, 5 seconds to display battery, etc. It's idiotic! I hope this gets fixed soon.
Posted May 26, 2009 22:29 UTC (Tue)
by dlang (guest, #313)
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Posted May 27, 2009 10:48 UTC (Wed)
by nye (subscriber, #51576)
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In that case it seems pretty cheeky that adding Bluetooth to a Dell laptop costs an extra £30.
Posted May 27, 2009 17:40 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted May 27, 2009 18:48 UTC (Wed)
by Los__D (guest, #15263)
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Noise-isolates 35-40 dB, sounds a hell of a lot better too (I only listened to my own non-Bluetooth ER-4P, I don't know how bad A2DP kills the quality).
Only problem is that for some, they aren't very comfortable, so it would propably be a good idea to try them first.
Posted May 27, 2009 19:27 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted May 27, 2009 20:00 UTC (Wed)
by jengelh (guest, #33263)
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Posted May 27, 2009 20:50 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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(Bail made of *gum*? Is this some US-specific peculiarity?)
Posted May 27, 2009 21:11 UTC (Wed)
by jengelh (guest, #33263)
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Posted May 27, 2009 22:35 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted May 29, 2009 20:40 UTC (Fri)
by asdlfiui788b (guest, #58839)
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Posted May 22, 2009 21:09 UTC (Fri)
by alecs1 (guest, #46699)
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Otherwise, at some point PA entered Unstable of Debian and strange sound bugs started to come an go. When the strangest one came (with multiple X logins, if I changed the user, sound from the previous user was killed), I removed PA and live hapilly without sound bugs, until the a few generations sacrifice themselves and uncover all PA bugs.
Posted May 23, 2009 9:39 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted May 23, 2009 9:40 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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*hides head*
Posted May 23, 2009 17:00 UTC (Sat)
by clarious (guest, #58753)
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Posted May 25, 2009 15:58 UTC (Mon)
by gbutler69 (guest, #54063)
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Posted Jun 12, 2009 13:00 UTC (Fri)
by gdamjan (subscriber, #33634)
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I think .10-.14 were the problematic releases and those crept in a lot of distros but now PA seems to work fine.
The Sound of Fedora 11 (MadRhetoric)
Useful PulseAudio features
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pcm.bluetooth {
type bluetooth
device 00:11:22:33:44:55
}
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I'm quite attached to my current Sennheisers, but since they've already
got a battery you'd think Bluetooth as well would be a natural for them.
(For all I know they already make them and I just hadn't noticed.)
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It's over-ear or nothing for me.
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one that didn't feel like you were wearing a vise.
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Oddly disturbing.
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The Sound of Fedora 11 (MadRhetoric)
Maybe the alsa mixers galore will also be somewhat solved.
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glitch-free, even in the sense of 'oops the app refuses to start with an
entirely spurious esound authentication error' class of 'glitch').
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three lines without losing one of them.
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