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I think you've hit one of the most painful topics of ALSA: Its documentation.



Check out the "Perfect Setup" for Pulse Audio: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documen...

Sounds on linux is a shitshow.


Yeah I'm aware that PA has relatively a lot of documentation, but I'd still like to see ALSA documented. Even if a tiny bit more.


Yes, you can do an incredible amount of very useful stuff with ALSA and it's asoundrc files.

Sadly that logic is quite opaque, poorly documented, and produces mysterious error messages or, worse, no error at all.




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