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I know that sound system on the Pandora will be ALSA, but is there any possibility in the future to a OSS4 one to be developed? Is the ALSA driver open sorce?
Is widely known that ALSA have worse sound quality than the previous linux sound system, OSS (Open Sound System), and is more complicated for applications developers becuase a hardest to use API.
There was a Closed Source version of OSS, that was even better. Now, that version got a new release, the fourth, and got a new license, GPL. (Althouth there is still a free as in free beer but closed source version, the GPL'd free as in freedom version is the interesting one)
Before I knew about ALSA bad sound quality, I already feel that it sounded bad. Looking for ways to improve my sound quality, found that is true, ALSA sounds bad always, in all kinds of sound cards, and discovered OSS4. I installed it on my Gentoo x86 system (installation was VERY VERY easy) and was amazed as how my Sound Blaster Live! was giving me cristal clear sound again, as it used to do in Windows.
A very interesting article http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/05/s...d-in-linux.html
Is widely known that ALSA have worse sound quality than the previous linux sound system, OSS (Open Sound System), and is more complicated for applications developers becuase a hardest to use API.
There was a Closed Source version of OSS, that was even better. Now, that version got a new release, the fourth, and got a new license, GPL. (Althouth there is still a free as in free beer but closed source version, the GPL'd free as in freedom version is the interesting one)
Before I knew about ALSA bad sound quality, I already feel that it sounded bad. Looking for ways to improve my sound quality, found that is true, ALSA sounds bad always, in all kinds of sound cards, and discovered OSS4. I installed it on my Gentoo x86 system (installation was VERY VERY easy) and was amazed as how my Sound Blaster Live! was giving me cristal clear sound again, as it used to do in Windows.
A very interesting article http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/05/s...d-in-linux.html