A friendliness thought about asoundconf

[Toby Smithe]

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 23:50 -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> I just completed an upgrade to Gutsy while continuing to use my KDE session to 
> do stuff.  It was ugly, but I suffered worse on a more frequent basis back 
> when I was running Sid, so I'm more or less impressed.
> 
> One casualty of this process was that my soundcard order got jumbled somehow, 
> even though I'm still running the kernel from Feisty at the moment, and 
> nothing has changed in my QJackCtl config either.
> 
> Turned out I had to run asoundconf set-default-card Live to set things right, 
> and now it seems like everything is in order.  I'm not sure why that was 
> required, but it does get me thinking.

I wrote an application to handle this kind of thing in the GUI. It's
called asoundconf-gtk and it's been in the repository since Feisty, with
the Gutsy version supporting PulseAudio (ie; if you have PulseAudio
installed, it will route ALSA sound through that by default).

However, it is very simple, and doesn't handle interesting things like
funky software mixing, or fancy plug-ins. And it only makes changes for
the user, as opposed to system-wide (which would involve writing
to /etc/asound.conf).

When I have some time again, it is on my To Do list to add this kind of
thing to asoundconf-ui[0] (the natural continuation of asoundconf-gtk),
and get that in the repo to replace asoundconf-gtk.

[0] http://launchpad.net/asoundconf-ui

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Toby Smithe
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