# Die Pulseaudio, die die die!!!



Finally made the switch to `jackd` which works *so much better* than
Pulseaudio. Ubuntu did not make this easy, but with some perseverance
it works. One of the things I really hate about Pulseaudio is that
when I click on a new song in audacious it would take about 1 second
before the audio stabilized. Also with flash audio would stutter for the
first few seconds. 

First (if you don't care about `gnome-desktop`):

    apt-get remove pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils

> I'M pulseaudio FREE!!

Then followed
[this](http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/ubuntu-904-jaunty-keeping-the-beast-pulseaudio-at-bay/).

Install `jackd` and friends, read
[this](http://www.pseudoberries.com/blog/?p=166), and try:

    jackd --verbose -d alsa -r 44100 -d hw:1

(You might need `hw:0` instead of  `hw:1` - I have two sound cards)

Now the hard task of making `alsa` work with `jack`. You
are missing `libasound_module_pcm_jack.so` in Ubuntu...

> This does not work on Ubuntu - you need to custom build your own
> libasound2-plugins package. You
> can get my 32 bit (Intel) versions of them here
> [lib64asound2-plugins_1.0.18-1ubuntu4_i386.deb](/downloads/2009/lib64asound2-plugins_1.0.18-1ubuntu4_i386.deb)
> and
> [libasound2-plugins_1.0.18-1ubuntu4_i386.deb](/downloads/2009/libasound2-plugins_1.0.18-1ubuntu4_i386.deb)

# Custom libasound2 package

# Prerequisites

    apt-get install libjack-dev
    apt-get build-dep libasound2-plugins
    apt-get source libasound2-plugins

Now, the plugins aren't build with `jack` support - go figure. So you'll
need to edit `debian/rules` in `alsa-plugins-1.0.18/`. Uncomment all the
`jack` stuff you see, except the following:

    # install $(INSTALL_UAG) jack/.libs/libasound_module_pcm_jack.so \
    # 	debian/libasound2-plugins/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_jack.so.2.0.0
    # ln -s libasound_module_pcm_jack.so.2.0.0 \
    # 	debian/libasound2-plugins/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_jack.so

After this you can build the package with:

    sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc

Now you only have to take care of starting a `jack`-daemon on your
desktop start up and you are back in *audio heaven*.