For those using Windows, the "Togglekeys" Accessibility Option makes your computer beep at you when you ACCIDENTALLY HIT A nUM, cAPS OR sCROLL lOCK KEY, thus preventing you from shouting at the world.
The only thing wrong with PulseAudio is the way it is implemented in Ubuntu.[...]
Er, no.
Another feature^W bug of PulseAudio is the automagic resampling to $whatever_frequency_it_decides.
Which is marvellous if you want 44.1kHz system beeps on your VIA-powered mini-ITX lounge jukebox system to blend perfectly with 48kHz audio recorded off a DVB radio stream. Or a DVD.
So, PulseAudio decides to lock your audio to 44.1 kHz on startup, and then 48kHz audio stutters and skips because the poor (600MHz) processor (which makes a meal of just about everything) really doesn't like realtime re-encoding.
And the really Homeresque thing about this is that the onboard sound can play 48kHz audio natively. Of course, I'd be only too happy to tell PulseAudio to use 48kHz all the time, but for the ripped CD collection on there too.
In fact, an ideal solution would be to somehow, magically, on-the-fly, send audio files sampled at frequencies it knows the sound card can handle, directly to the card and not resample them arbitrarily.
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For those using Windows, the "Togglekeys" Accessibility Option makes your computer beep at you when you ACCIDENTALLY HIT A nUM, cAPS OR sCROLL lOCK KEY, thus preventing you from shouting at the world.
I've a couple of devices that do that too (DVD player and TV).
The rationale must be that you'll always know whether they are being supplied by mains power, since they're either working, or have a light on.
"brackets" vs "parentheses" is a known difference between American and British English.
The only thing wrong with PulseAudio is the way it is implemented in Ubuntu.[...]
Er, no.
Another feature^W bug of PulseAudio is the automagic resampling to $whatever_frequency_it_decides.
Which is marvellous if you want 44.1kHz system beeps on your VIA-powered mini-ITX lounge jukebox system to blend perfectly with 48kHz audio recorded off a DVB radio stream. Or a DVD.
So, PulseAudio decides to lock your audio to 44.1 kHz on startup, and then 48kHz audio stutters and skips because the poor (600MHz) processor (which makes a meal of just about everything) really doesn't like realtime re-encoding.
And the really Homeresque thing about this is that the onboard sound can play 48kHz audio natively. Of course, I'd be only too happy to tell PulseAudio to use 48kHz all the time, but for the ripped CD collection on there too.
In fact, an ideal solution would be to somehow, magically, on-the-fly, send audio files sampled at frequencies it knows the sound card can handle, directly to the card and not resample them arbitrarily.
Just like it did in 2007.
Grrrr.
[...] have a dragon obsession and fire breath is cool.
I'm fairly sure that's not the case.