Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Bypass software mixer?

[Jonathan Matthew <notverysmart gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:33:21PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Can I bypass the software mixer to leave the audio untouched until it
> hits the DAC?

If you disable crossfading in rhythmbox, set the rhythmbox volume
control to full volume, select ALSA (or a specific
device) for 'music and movies' in the GNOME sound preferences, and make
sure you're not using pulseaudio or any other sound daemon, then the
data written to ALSA will be about as untouched as you're going to get.

Other than that, it's not particularly clear what you mean by 'the
software mixer'.  The term 'mixer' means a number of different things,
and just about everything in the picture is 'software'.