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ronandi

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From: US

Registered: 2008-04-26

Posts: 65

Alsa 1.0.20 - ETA?

Anyone have a good guess as to when ALSA 1.0.20 will come out? I recently bought the ASUS Xonar STX and support for it comes with the new version.

Last edited by ronandi (2009-04-23 01:59:24)

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Ollboll

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Registered: 2009-05-04

Posts: 4

Re: Alsa 1.0.20 - ETA?

Don't bother waiting for ALSA 1.0.20 just to use that card, the current snapshot supports it!

Just download the current snapshot and compile according to this guide: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index. … e-virtuoso

Awesome choice for sound card by the way, I haven't regretted bying it myself even a tiny bit

Last edited by Ollboll (2009-05-04 10:50:02)

Ollboll

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Registered: 2009-05-04

Posts: 4

Re: Alsa 1.0.20 - ETA?

Since this is Newbie Corner I'm saying this also:

Make sure you don't let the daemonic dmix destroy the sound quality, I got a huge jump in sound quality when i routed mpd and smplayer directly to the card thus bypassing the Alsa software mixer.

I also first used gstreamer but gstreamer destroyed my sound quality compared to xine / mpd.

It would be such a shame to let such an awesome sound card fall due to such stuff, because the quality I get in my headphones is godlike now. It's atleast as good or maby even better than in windows.

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Alsa 1.0.20 - ETA?

How would one do that? Routing to the card I mean.

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Ollboll

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Registered: 2009-05-04

Posts: 4

Re: Alsa 1.0.20 - ETA?

In mpd.conf i added this to my alsa audio output

[...]
audio_output {
    type            "alsa"
    name            "My ALSA Device"
    device            "plughw:0,0" # This line is supposed to do it
}
[...]

And in SMPlayer I added this in advanced -> extra options for MPlayer : -ao alsa:device=plughw=0,0

The drawback is that only one device can use one sound source at the same time since no mixing is used, but you sure get godlike sound quality, atleast I do

Last edited by Ollboll (2009-05-05 13:12:54)

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Alsa 1.0.20 - ETA?

If dmix decreases sound quality so much, wouldn't using pulseaudio increase it again?(that is if pulseaudio is a dmix replacement?)

I really wonder if dmix is the sole reason why everyone goes "oh oss have so much better soundquality" ...

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Ollboll

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Registered: 2009-05-04

Posts: 4

Re: Alsa 1.0.20 - ETA?

And thus ALSA 1.0.20 was released, so no more snapshots needed for this card.