ALSA without PulseAudio and PipeWire

igorzwx · Yesterday 17:06:33

Your ALSA is not pure, To get pure ALSA, you have to purge pulseaudio from libasound2-plugins
_https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7523

It is not enough to remove pulseaudio, you have to remove other crap to get "pure alsa".

Mate sound applet works with ALSA without problems.

EQ is needed for semi-deaf users to enhance high frequencies.

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greenjeans · Yesterday 17:25:46

My Alsa is fine, thanks. Sounds great in fact, sitting here listening to Iron Maiden right now, as the artists intended it to sound.

An EQ is for evening out the frequency response to match the inverse of their personal Fletcher-Munson curve, which of course differs in all individuals as much or more than their fingerprints do. This is basic simple stuff every real tech learns year one.

I believe in giving a user the choice to decide for themselves what to install, my job in my projects is simply to give them a solid working base to build on.

igorzwx · Yesterday 17:41:00

Because of your personal Fletcher-Munson curve you may not hear the difference between your ALSA and pure ALSA

greenjeans · Today 01:28:41

FYI to all reading you do NOT have to install or compile various random github packages to have a working Alsa system or to have it sound good, or to have sound in Firefox. Don't blithely accept one or another individual's nonsense about what should sound best for you... judge for yourselves.

There is music, created by an artist, then there's you. Discretion is required for anyone you let get between you and that music. Ask yourself; are they an artist? Are they an engineer? Are they a sound technician? Or are they some random person who writes (or merely copy/pastes) code and puts it on the internet and tries to convince you that your hearing is flawed if you don't agree with their perception?

igorzwx · Today 02:07:23

If pulseaudio is removed, the PulseAudio ALSA plugin sits at the ALSA library level, intercepting all audio calls system-wide. This means every application that tries to use ALSA will encounter the broken plugin trying to route audio through the non-existent PulseAudio server. The leftover plugin blocks exclusive mode access and causes audio failures, making it impossible to achieve the low-latency, direct hardware access that removing PulseAudio was meant to enable.

This does affect sound quality, but semi-deaf artists might be perfectly happy with such a "fine ALSA".

bai4Iej2need · Today 09:08:29

from https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=59154#p59154

@greenjeans : Thank You for the advice. I will test that in a VM before next steps.

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