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> (I'll note that on my SMP machine, I'm running MP3 decoders much of the
> time, and in practice very rarely hear any dropouts. So the folks who
> are painting such a dire picture of the state of Multimedia are
> overstating their case a little, I think.)
The problem isn't with simple playback or recording, buffering will
usually take care of that.. The problem is with other music things, like
operating your system as a software synth (a task that Linux + alsa is
wonderfully sutied for as the 'hacker' mentatlity as well as module
components really fit well with technical music stuff (ever used a real
mixer board? They come with schematics and suggested modifications))..
Perhaps an intresting point is: Linux isn't very useful as a professional
music playform without ALSA and the kernel doesn't yet include Alsa, so
people wanting to do serious music stuff are already going to have to be
running a non-standard kernel (or at least a kernel module), is it that
much more to ask them to install a low-latency patch until a clean enough
set of solutions is found?
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