I 'member having to use a script to do software mixing of multiple audio streams in alsa, so I could listen to a music CD while playing WOW. Otherwise whichever thing started first would grab the audio device and the other thing couldn’t use it. This would’ve been back in like 2006-7.
You must have been blessed by the hardware gods. I had several scripts bound to hotkeys to fix various issues that would occur regularly and this was only 5 or so years ago. Volume would reset, wrong sink would get selected, it would crash, it would crackle, it had bad latency but most of the time it was fine.
Been around since OSS and ALSA was the new kid on the block. Yet to experience these supposed sound issues.
All i can say is, you have been a very lucky individual.
Then you didn’t use your computer for much involving audio.
Yeah I am also running linux for 20 years or so. Minor hiccups here and there, but sound has been solid generally.
I 'member having to use a script to do software mixing of multiple audio streams in alsa, so I could listen to a music CD while playing WOW. Otherwise whichever thing started first would grab the audio device and the other thing couldn’t use it. This would’ve been back in like 2006-7.
You must have been blessed by the hardware gods. I had several scripts bound to hotkeys to fix various issues that would occur regularly and this was only 5 or so years ago. Volume would reset, wrong sink would get selected, it would crash, it would crackle, it had bad latency but most of the time it was fine.
Same, I have it running on several different laptops/desktops, it’s probably a certain piece of hardware.
I’m sure it’s happening to people, just not everyone.