Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:33:56 +0200
Filip <filip@fbvnet.be> wrote:

> Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > JFTR: I try to stay with xfce if possible.
> > But parole was not working and I had to install totem.
> > This brought in a lot of gnome stuff -- including PA.
> > And the next I knew, sound had stopped working.
> >
> > Started working when I removed PA.
> >
> > [I may have got some details wrong... this is my memory of it]
> 
> Why not use vlc as media player? It doesn't pull in loads of
> desktop-specific dependencies, and it's flexible in letting choose
> which output backends to use for audio and video. If one backend
> doesn't works, there will surely be an alternitive on that does.
> There's even an ascii art backend for video ;-).

I'm listening to VLC right now. It's good, but Clementine seems to find
more Internet radio stations.

However, Clementine is a little tricky to use with a window manager
without a panel, and right now I'm using dwm. So I'm using VLC, it's
easy.

Thanks,

SteveT

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