Comment 10 for bug 1087002

+1 to relying on PortAudio for the sample rate. The patch looks good to me.

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:01 AM, jus <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can't comment on the technical aspects discussed here, but on support
> request we got in the forums and the feedback form.
>
> Often new user on (mostly) Windows complain that a) Mixxx did not load
> any tracks or b) plays tracks to slow. Manually selecting a valid sound
> device in the preferences and setting the sample rate to 44100 Hz works
> in most of the cases.
>
> One could argue that we never heard from the users with cheap 48k only
> sound cards (see #3) because they have no issues, but as long as we dont
> have any numbers it is speculation.
>
> One aspect that we should not overlook in this context is that none of
> our competitors (afaik) default to 48k. Here we can probably trust the
> majority, also because some of them are hardware makers too.
>
> +1 for defaulting to 44.1k
>
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