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		account42 on Feb 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix What about ALSA or OSS applications?

cycloptic on Feb 8, 2021 [–]

I believe there is a pipewire ALSA module, and for OSS there are (were?) numerous ways to get that emulated in ALSA.

account42 on Feb 9, 2021 | [–]

Ok so it should not be worse than pre-PipeWire at least. Too bad Linux can't just make /dev/dsp be usable by multiple applications like the *BSDs managed.

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