[nas] Re: nas and pulseaudio?

[Jon Trulson]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Paul Fox wrote:

> jon wrote:
> >    protocol under PA would however.  What would be the point of the
> >    auplay client under PA for example, other than a test of PA's NAS
> >    protocol handling?  Those who want something light and 'simple'
> >    (without the dependancies PA needs) might still prefer to run plain
> >    old nasd.
>
> what you might be forgetting is that in any given nas installation,
> there are probably more client pieces than server pieces.  i have
> just three nasd servers running in the house, but many many
> instances of auplay, madplay_nas, aumix, etc, scattered
> throughout various scripts on various systems.  i'm not looking
> forward to finding and replacing all those aufoo programs if i were
> to want to switch to PA for some reason.
>

   Me?? I think I was agreeing with you...?

> paul
> p.s.  believe it or not, we even use auedit -- my wife finds the
> "replay segment between markers" feature to be incredibly useful
> for practicing her chorus part, using demo music that's handed
> out for that purpose.

   That's just sick.  (The young ones tell me that sick = cool these
   days :)

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