Talk:PulseAudio

message: to read the names of the responsible persons of this software here. Hella  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.244.66.191 (talk) 16:02, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: It would be intresting

message: Polypaudio has been renamed to Pulse Audio. riffic 21:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polypaudio -> PulseAudio 

message: Definitely needs a criticism section. Just had Debian install this garbage as a 'recommended' package, sound started breaking up in mplayer afterwards. See http://amplicate.com/hate/pulseaudio for plenty of negative comments about this software.
94.192.44.203 (talk) 20:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: PulseAudio does a lot more than allow multiple processes access to the sound stream - it also allows you to fine-tune the audio output of all your processes, including varying left and right channels individually. Also, the ability to set up dmix (the mixer for multiple channels in ALSA) is not exactly easy, whereas PulseAudio provides this from the offset. Yes, a lot of "older" (and some recent programs) have been broken by PulseAudio, but as far as I am aware, the developers are working to fix these issues (and seem to mainly relate to programs using broken or older sound systems). ~~ [Jam][talk] 19:58, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Further you'd need reliable sources, what you have written reads very much like WP:OR. --Falcorian (talk) 04:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Not to mention that ALSA is notoriously difficult to configure correctly and does not offer to sync multiple outputs to a single stream.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.26.116 (talk) 10:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Sound latency and seldom crashes of the PulseAudio daemon are the main reason for criticism, the problem is that adobe flash player is using PulseAudio for sound output thus making it inevitable for most users. most distributions are compiling pulseaudio with gconf module which adds lots of unneeded runtime dependencies like gvfs. in some cases Pulseaudio genarates crackling noise while more clients are in use on nvidia nforce chipsets 89.102.195.13 (talk) 17:46, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder where you got that idea. Adobe Flash 9 and 10 can certainly use ALSA directly (when PulseAudio is not available). -- intgr [talk] 14:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

text: How about breaking just almost everything that was working fine with Alsa? I'm not against the improvements Pulse Audio purports to seek. But the way it was forced onto users before readiness really rankles.Crosslink (talk) 23:42, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There should definitely be a criticism section. Currently pulseaudio is using as much as 20% of my Athlon 64 3700+ machine when I play games!! Can you believe that? There must be something *VERY* big broken in it because ALSA took 0% CPU time. Henu (talk) 09:32, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism? 

message: Main author of this GREAT audio server isn't even mentioned in the article?! I think he more than deserve credits!--Popski (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 09:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lennart Poettering 

message: The latest Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 distro has PulseAudio on by default (see , replacing the ESD and slotting in between a number of apps. It all seems quite well integrated *except* that there are problems with clicks and pops on audio with high CPU. I get this on one of my machines (a trash/dumpster found machine that runs a PIII 433 Mhz processor and 384 Meg of memory). I think it's fixed in kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (which isn't yet out for me).
The point being that lots of people use Ubuntu so this'll probably attract more traffic to this article. Ttiotsw (talk) 23:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  PulseAudio  on by default in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. 

message: On a low-end machine, such as a 600 MHz C3, the pulseaudio server can use 30% of the CPU. This converts a silent media-server from one which can (just) play DVDs into one which can't. Most pulseaudio-compliant applications such as mplayer will happily fall back to using ALSA natively if p.a. is uninstalled.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.171.29 (talk) 01:48, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since Linux is used for various lean machines (as well as virtual ones), this issue pretty much stands. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 09:55, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  CPU usage 

message: Why does Sound in Unix redirect to here? --antilivedT | C | G 09:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears the article - which was created in March this year - originally redirected to the Open Sound System, which has now been more or less deprecated by PulseAudio. I suspect the redirect should really be deleted, because it implies that PulseAudio is the only sound system available to *nix operating systems. ~~ [Jam][talk] 10:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sound in Unix]] -> [[PulseAudio]]?? 

message: WP:CSECTION is not justification to outright delete/revert cited criticism of PulseAudio, no matter how much you may wish to whitewash this article. I quote:
:This does not imply that criticism should be removed from the article; only that the current organization of content on the page results in an unbalanced presentation.
As it stands, criticism in its own section is consistent with many other articles; if you object, feel free to fit it into prose more comfortably, but currently the article does not have such a body IMO. If someone fixes the (templated-marked) list->prose problem, that may work. LionsPhil (talk) 17:23, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Whitewash". Hilarious. I've retitled the section, which will do for now, although quite why including gossip cribbed from developer blogs is so vitally important to this article is beyond me. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 20:56, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: From the first paragraph of the introduction I have the impression that PulseAudio is an alternative to Alsa.  But then from the first paragraph under Alternatives I have the impression that PulseAudio is a mixer which can serve in place of dmix.  Well, I guess neither of these statements is correct.  Will someone please try to improve the introduction so that the function of PulseAudio is apparent.  Thanks, PeterEasthope (talk) 05:07, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction and Alternatives 

message: There seems to be some confusion about the two terms. PulseAudio is a sound server, ALSA is a sound system. Without a backend audio system such as ALSA or OSS you can't have a functioning artsd, PulseAudio, JACK, or any other sound server. 98.30.49.10 (talk) 12:38, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound Server/Sound System 

message: I know this is a touchy issue, but I am reverting the use of GNU/Linux... please read the rationale before blindly re-reverting it:
PulseAudio is not dependent on a GNU user space to operate. For example, we use PulseAudio on an embedded Linux platform with pretty much no core GNU tools at all (BusyBox and uclibc, etc).. PulseAudio is written against Alsa which is not a GNU project and all its other dependencies are not necessarily dependent on GNU artifacts. Dammitall097 (talk) 04:35, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, back in my days, I had a Core 2 Duo device. I fitted with Fedora 12, and its PulseAudio was... so so. Pro: was handling 3 instances of VLCs well. Contra: putting my device (with music still playing) into sleep and then waking it up would result in "NNNNNNNNNNNNNN" noise on log in page. Logging in would stop the noise-instead-of-sound problem, but I definitely remember there were some "minor problems" notifications with pulseaudio. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 10:05, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNU/Linux 

message: On Ubuntu, some programs will only work with sound if you close all other programs first.  For example the Linux version of Kega Fusion will only play sound when all other programs are closed first.  Why does this happen with PulseAudio?  I'm not an expert at this subject, but maybe someone who is an expert can explain the technical details and maybe put this onto the main page. TurboForce (talk) 11:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: WP is not a bug tracker. This probably does not belong in this article riffic (talk) 12:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, Wikipedia articles about software shouldn't list bugs, but I think major problems or limitations deserve a mention. TurboForce (talk) 20:58, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: By reading the article, I don't understand why a "sound server" like PulseAudio is needed.  Does Microsoft Windows use a sound server or does it just use "the" sound card driver?  I still have the problem occasionally of a few programs that will only work with sound when you close all other sound programs in Ubuntu.  Why not "just" use ALSA?  Please clarify.  Thanks. TurboForce (talk) 21:18, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  ALSA alone, even with dmix, does not provide a sufficient level of abstraction expected from a modern desktop sound system, nor can it reroute streams from legacy APIs into the mixer. Before PulseAudio came along, it was not uncommon for "ill-behaved" Linux applications to exclusively lock the sound card. As for Windows and Mac OS X, IIRC, they also use userspace mixer processes, they just don't have a special name. - Sikon (talk) 10:22, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  PulseAudio bug not mentioned. 

message: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse-glitch-free.html talks about low latency in Pulseaudio.
144.32.48.87 (talk) 15:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blog post about pulseaudio latency 

message: "PulseAudio is used in recent versions of several major linux distributions" could be better worded as "PulseAudio is available in recent versions of several major linux distributions". The phrase "is used" implies that it is a required component, or at least a component that is installed by default. On Debian, it is neither.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.78.198.22 (talk) 15:39, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded Krushia (talk) 16:56, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adoption 

message: Poettering talked in his blog about software effects rather using SIMD in the CPU, e.g. MMX, for calculations than a distinct sound card with sound processors. What about AMD TrueAudio? Does support for it belong into PulseAudio or into the kernel (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)? User:ScotXWt@lk 15:16, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  AMD TrueAudio 

message: OS X is listed as a supported platform on this page, but I can't find any reference to OS X on the project's homepage
and not anywhere else yet.
Elronxenu (talk) 06:57, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mac OS X 

message: Almost all of the references to this article are from self-published sources. NotYourFathersOldsmobile (talk) 02:28, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, that's because with open-source software, you wouldn't get a corporate suit-and-tie making a report on how a tweak gone wrong with notions on "endangering product X's marketshare" and alike. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 10:09, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-published sources 

message: are the developers and supporter, backer, sponsors of this malware? Is pulseaudio an anonymous attacc? That's unlikely ... (btw: the damage is computable - so it's time for investigations now! Topic: Sabotage of millions of linux-computers and hidden attaccs against the idea of free software. ) Hella  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.132.79.181 (talk) 15:43, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Could have been a mere IKEA effect. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 10:10, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who ...