Windows audio session vs directsound how to#
Windows audio session vs directsound install#
Windows audio session vs directsound driver#

Windows audio session vs directsound how to#

The mpd site docs are exhaustive but very clear and the pulseaudio user docs offer very good examples of how to set up pulseaudio correctly (several distros have really screwed this up in the past, no idea why).

Windows audio session vs directsound install#

I'm not going to offer a tutorial but if anyone wants to set up mpd and client then the best place to look for docs are the docs on the mpd site itself, alongside any that are shipped with your OS's package when you install it. It's poorly thought out, poorly explained and is definitely of the 'works for me wtf' school. yes, if you follow some random howto from the It kind of conflates setting up mpd, pulse audio streaming and sonata desktop client. It's hard to know what to make of rather broad criticism that doesn't identify a specific issue or calrify what would be desirable. I can configure which metadata is displayed, and how it's displayed and so on. I don't know what might be the problem with the ergonmics or UI, it seems to me to be very easy to search, queue, navigate, play and otherwise control mpd and clients with UI buttons, with keyboard shortcuts, with keyboard multimedia buttons, even with my phone. If you have a GTK desktop environment then GMPC can be made to just fit right in and look like it belongs.

Any modern OS allows you to define the software mixer sample rate, or to bypass it and give the playback app exclusive bit-perfect control of the audio card/chip.Д¬lick to expand.Ugliness in music players: Do you use them to play music or watch them? OK, that's a bit facetious, but only a bit. Any differences perceived are likely to be because volume is not precisely matched and/or the different OSs use a different default sample rate in their software mixer (typically 44.1 or 48 KHz).

Windows audio session vs directsound driver#

Any OS that has a decent driver ought to be able to offer identical sound. Why not just use a sane directory structure and a player that understands both file system navigation and tags?ДЇor what it's worth, there really shouldn't be any difference in audio quality between Linux and Windows on the same hardware. On a single system setup MPD can work just fine, but seems like overkill. As soon as you find that you want to store your music collection on one system/address/location but have it be listenable in multiple other locations (LAN or WAN) then an MPD server gets very appealing indeed and may be a compelling choice. If you have a single computer on which you store and manage and play your music collection then MPD may well be the wrong choice for you. There's the key: it is a server+client(s) system. gmpc, sonata or similar, is ,naturally, rather simpler. It is a server application and there is an expectation that the user will make some informed choices in setting it up. MPD's configuration is actually very decent indeed. I've been using Debian and Debian based systems for my servers, desktops and laptops since 2006. There is precisely one full featured GUI client for mpd on Linux/BSD based systems, and that is GMPC Despite the Gnome in the name it does not require Gnome desktop (is safe to consider that part of the name an historical anomaly) but it does require GTK.