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Try soundflower for mac. I think JACK audio also works on Mac/Win. > "Just Works" is a useless subjective specifier. I'd say a good usable mail client, a read

by dsego 6y ago

Try soundflower for mac. I think JACK audio also works on Mac/Win. > "Just Works" is a useless subjective specifier. I'd say a good usable mail client, a readily available video editor, sound recording software and office suite are more important than an advanced audio mixer. > sound playing from multiple devices at the same time This seems like a very niche use case. Along the lines of the usual nerdy response of linux being able to compile gcc or run vim and why would anyone use their computer for anything else.

dvdkon 6y ago
> I'd say a good usable mail client, a readily available video editor, sound recording software and office suite are more important than an advanced audio mixer. I'm not disputing that. It isn't hard to agree on what an average user definitely needs and therefore must work. The hard part is where to draw the line, what is still needed and what is niche. > This seems like a very niche use case. Maybe. But it's very much something an "average user" might want. It's actually something I want to be able to do so I can watch a film with my sister, each with our own headphones. That's a real user need, not something "meta" like the FLOSS things you mentioned (not a solution by itself, but something that can help a programmer fill that user need).