[nzlug] Audio editor for ALSA
Rossco
rosscoad at slingshot.co.nz
Thu Oct 19 13:49:51 NZDT 2006
Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:05 +1300, Rossco wrote:
>
>> I don't have time to search for previous thread but why do you use
>> AOSS for an app which supports ALSA? Isn't AOSS to allow OSS only apps
>> to access ALSA devices? If I'm not missing something here Audacity
>> should run on ALSA system without using AOSS.
>>
>
> Hmm, it only wants to use /dev/dsp - at least in the incarnation in the
> Ubuntu repository.
>
Ah that explains it. I use Gentoo and just found I had built it to use
ALSA or Jack instead of the default of OSS.
For next time you could try using rezound, it supports ALSA directly and
will open and save as mp3,ogg,etc. It is a nice editor too.
Ross.
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