Re: [ecasound] ecasound-2.4.6.1: audioloop doesn't work ?

--- On Fri, 8/15/08, Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> From: Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen@email-addr-hidden>
> Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecasound-2.4.6.1: audioloop doesn't work ?
> To: ecasound-list@email-addr-hidden
> Date: Friday, August 15, 2008, 10:53 AM
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
>
> > I tried to play the same file over and over again,
> using this command:
> >
> > ~/AFSWD/install/ecasound-2.4.6.1/binsh/ecasound -D
> -i:audioloop,input.wav -o alsa
>
> 2.4.6.1 doesn't support 'audioloop' (it was
> first added to 2.5.0pre1), so
> that shouldn't work at all.
>
> A bit weirdly, ecasound interprets
> "audioloop,input.wav" as "loop,1". The
> logic is that if no audio object can be created from the
> '-i' arguments,
> ecasound will try to see if it's a loop device.
> Unfortunately it only
> checks whether first argument contains substring
> "loop" (sorry, lazy
> coding from me), so the end result is very confusing...
>
> --
>

Is there the same kind of lazy coding in the latest prerelease version ?

Command line parsing should really be flawless, otherwise there is no
way for end user to understand where his/her mistake is.

Thanks,
  Sergei.

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