Re: [Audacity-devel] audio i/o

[Joshua H. <jo...@ha...>]

Shane Mueller <smu...@um...> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 16:21, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> > I looked into some of the audio i/o issues, and here are my current thoughts.
> 
> > 3. Keep the device open all the time, leaving only a StartStream() to do when
> > the user clicks play or record.  This could give the play and record buttons
> > more responsive behavior, and it will be helpful once we support JACK.
> > Alternatively, we could keep the stream running all the time but ignore the
> > input/output when we don't want it (similar to how pause has been implemented).
> > This would make the play/record buttons almost instantaneous.
> Doing it this second way would allow you to have volume meters that work
> all of the time rather than just when you are playing/recording, right?

That's right, good point.

The only disadvantage I can think of is that this would tie up the device on
OS's and soundcards where you can't open the same device more than once at
a time.

Josh

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