loopback device for system sound (sound proxy)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mixxx |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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William Good |
Bug Description
It would be a nice feature, if mixxx is able to catch the sound output of other application and use it as a sound source for mixing.
Today on my Linux machines mixxx occupies the whole sound output and system sound is muted.
A good behaviour in general I think, but If you want to mix sound from special external sources you need a additional Hardware.
Some use cases:
* Showing a video
* playing songs which can only be played by special players due to DRM
* playing special formats like mid, sid or ac3
* playing online streams from tape.tv simfy or last.fm
A workaround could be, to connec Mixxx to PulseAudio, but I have not managed to get this working. (separate Bug)
Is it possible, to register mixxx as sound Output for PulseAudio?
tags: | added: cloud |
I've been thinking that we may need to provide a native PulseAudio backend or possibly build PulseAudio support into PortAudio. The user experience right now with pulse-enabled Linux systems is very bad.
If we did, that would possibly let us present ourselves as an audio input as well.