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		cycloptic on Feb 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix I'm not sure what you mean. Pipewire goes out of its way to have ABI compatibility, so all your old applications using Pulse/Jack will just work.

account42 on Feb 8, 2021 [–]

What about ALSA or OSS applications?

cycloptic on Feb 8, 2021 | [–]

I believe there is a pipewire ALSA module, and for OSS there are (were?) numerous ways to get that emulated in ALSA.

account42 on Feb 9, 2021 | | [–]

Ok so it should not be worse than pre-PipeWire at least. Too bad Linux can't just make /dev/dsp be usable by multiple applications like the *BSDs managed.

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