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Re: PulseAudio 15.0 Release Notes

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Some really really good bluetooth improvements in here. Really nice. I'm ongoingly surprised how active PulseAudio releases have been in the past couple years. It does make me a bit nervous for PipeWire. I want PipeWire to succeed, radically, but with PulseAudio continuing to make really good advances it feels like expectations/needs for PipeWire keep going up. The additional bluetooth capabilities here are an exampl…

I'm not afraid for Pipewire future; they seem to be moving faster and delivering results sooner. Even the bluetooth improvements, new for this release: they are already in Pipewire. On the other hand, it took Pulseaudio _two_ years to go through a merge request of a developer, that implemented it. You can read the entire f-up for yourself: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...

Christ, what a clusterfuck. I will give them this though: they tell you what to expect in the CONTRIBUTING file instead of the usual bullshit about how welcome patches are.

Re: PulseAudio 15.0 Release Notes

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Some really really good bluetooth improvements in here. Really nice. I'm ongoingly surprised how active PulseAudio releases have been in the past couple years. It does make me a bit nervous for PipeWire. I want PipeWire to succeed, radically, but with PulseAudio continuing to make really good advances it feels like expectations/needs for PipeWire keep going up. The additional bluetooth capabilities here are an exampl…

Could someone explain to me why Linux needed all these different audio systems? I remember when ALSA was the successor to OSS. But there were also others I can't name. JACK too, but I think that's still in use for professional sound production (not sure why anyone would use Linux for that). Then came PulseAudio which was The Future 2, which had a bunch of incompatibilities with existing programs that either caused la…

Before PulseAudio there was ESD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_Sound_Daemon

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