Do you use pulseaudio? If not, what do you use instead? What's the benefit?

chromium required specific sample rate, couldnt get discord to work at all. There are probably more but at that point ive switched to pulse since it just works and cant be bothered to make individual configs for everything

inb4 discord bad - need it for irl normies

i don't know

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>Not blowing a 3/4 inch hole in your ceiling
I am disappointed in you

who is this fat bitch

Wouldn't you like to know coomer

Yes. I use it. Pulse works fine and has done so almost from the point where it was announced and released.

I've been having a gripe with pulseaudio recently, are there even any alternatives on a systemd-based linux distro?
Let me first say that I have 2 audio devices that I would like to switch between, one is HDMI and one is 3.5mm jack.
How do I set one as default, or switch between? The programs themselves seem to set a a device at random and I have to manually set them in pavucontrol every time I start the program!

pulseaudio works for the most part, but it's not a painless experience for me. Unfortunately, there aren't any real alternatives out there, so I gotta live with it and the workarounds to my problems that I encounter with using it.

Double check which device is set as fallback (green checkbox button in output devices tab). That's it, though you might have to double check it doesn't change when you power the HDMI device on and off. I find that for my receiver, this is equivalent to disconnecting the HDMI cable, and pulse doesn't re-register the HDMI device when you turn it on without killing and restarting the pulseaudio daemon. Hell, the main gripe with pulse that I have is this issue itself.

I tried an alsa -> pulse -> jack setup for a while. Things kept randomly breaking, Jack would only start 70% of the time and ever since then MPD just refuses to go through alsa. Back to alsa -> pulse and shit just werks, it's not worth it.

imagine......

sndio

Both Pulse and Alsa

You can use pulsemixer to configure easily everything.
github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer

everyone runs pulse, including people who complain about it, because there's no real alternative
raw ALSA is impractical and the other sound servers are poorly supported

I'M GONNA COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

until it doesn't and you have no way of figuring why or how to fix it

I use Windows like a functional human so I don't need to have a clue what the fuck they're doing to get my audio to work :)

Sheep*

What do the people who complain about it not like?

>Do you use pulseaudio?
no
>If not, what do you use instead?
sndiod
>What's the benefit?
It actually just works. Also playing audio over network is neat

you need to go back

>I installed some program to make audio come out of my speakers
>I have no fucking clue how it works but I'm somehow better than the people that didn't have to install it manually
:^)

sndio

>install linux
>no audio
>install pulse
>audio
i mean why wouldn't I? What do I look like an autist?

> I install windows unlike those basement dwelling nerds.
>my graphical interface, text editor, music player and calculator record me and send it to the nsa
>can't customize anything, but that's good because I wouldn't know how anyways and I prefer to use ahitty defaults
Oh those linux nerds are hilarious!

>I install GNU/Linux (TM) unlike those normies
>my terminal editor, terminal music player that I can't even type the name of without Google, and terminal calculator stopped working after I updated my Arch install for the 8th time today
>can customize everything, so I spend 6 hours fiddling with the theme to get just the right hue in that close button, because who the fuck needs defaults when you can spend weeks getting everything like you want just to distrohop for the 4th time this month
Oh those normies are hilarious!

>go on technology board
>complain about technology and people who are interested in it and enjoy tinkering

If you want sane defaults, install fedora or something. It works fine, out of the box, maybe write a one line command if you have hardware problems, and that's it.
If you want to tinker, then install something else.

On Linux, you have the choice between these, on Windows, you do not.

Trying to justify a lack of choice by arguing that the defaults are better than something which isn't designed to have defaults at all is stupid.

There's a difference between an anime desktop ricer and a sysadmin that needs certain setup, it's like comparing windows chrome using gamers and a C# dev.
Also more often than not linux has better defaults than windows...
Not the other poster btw

is that cow supposed to be attractive?

>terminal music player that I can't even type the name of without Google
cont.
although I will admit ncmpcpp is a stupid fucking name

heh what a bunch of newbs i launch from a terminal by typing its full command name with no aliases or keybindings or tab completions
get some IQ points grandpa, we here zooming through the boundaries of intelligence

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>inb4 discord bad - need it for irl normies
>need it
no you don't. nobody there is worth anyone's time.

Picture = female chauvinism

ALSA alone. The only benefit is my familiarity with it. It works for me, I know how to set it up and tweak it. If I run into something I don't know how to do, I know the best places to go for information.
Pulse is unnecessary for me.

yes, triggered me
[Ba dum tss]

>Do you use pulseaudio?

yes i use it for casual listening , videos and webpages. But when I want to stream music to a USB DAC without re-sampling , I use ALSA. Both can be used together or even at the same time.

you’re glowing

underage summie, you need to go back

I use esound

he's right tho

fag

>finger on trigger
dumb bitch

Can anyone redpill me on this?

Has anyone had an issue where after using a program in WINE, Pulseaudio will fuck up and changing the volume in a program results in the audio speeding up or down until you kill and restart PA?

Anyone here using pipewire? I'm pretty interested in it as a pulse alternative