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Re: CA on MSWin?
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Re: CA on MSWin?

  • Subject: Re: CA on MSWin?
  • From: Paul Davis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:51:31 -0500



On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:00 PM, "René J.V. Bertin" <email@hidden> wrote:
On Dec 21, 2012, at 21:43, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> switching the h/w rate is ... if not exactly evil, then unfriendly. DP does this, and its bloody irritating to have it think that it owns the hardware when in fact other applications are using it at the existing rate.
>
> if the rates do not match then either (1) ask the user what to do or (2) resample.

Unfriendly? To whom or what, and who are you to make such declarations (nothing personal though)? I think it's the user's choice,

precisely. so no software should change the rate without asking the user. it should assume that there is probably a reason for the current rate setting, and not blindly override it with its own notion of what the rate should be.

be aware too of "hog mode" which can be set by one application and which will prevent others from changing the rate. apple discourages its use in consumer/desktop apps, but it has some legitimacy in "pro" products.
 
I don't know what DP is, but I can't imagine many cases in which one wants to have more than 1 application doing high-quality bitperfect sound output - and those I can imagine would be with all sources agreeing on the sample rate as evidently there is no other solution. How many of those "other applications" actually care about the sample rate of the output device, rather than sending their content to the default CA output device and let it handle the hairy details?

users of JACK on OS X won't share your experience or expectations, at least some significant number of them. 
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