Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Thanks for writing, Gognos.
I did not totally, or even partly, miss the drop down where I can change from pulse to whatever. In fact I am looking at that right now on my other screen, and here is what I see:
- the "output plugin" is ALSA Output
- just below that is a drop down that requires me to set "bit depth", the choices for which are 16, 24, 32 and floating point
It is this requirement to choose a bit depth, when I've already selected ALSA and therefore I know that I'm not required to choose a bit depth, that makes me turn away from Audacious.
Thanks very much for this comment, Jóhannes G. I see the organization is a not-for-profit as well. It's great to see this kind of community spirit working in the artist community.