> Personally, I would say that KXStudio has made a mistake here. There
>> is no reason to run PulseAudio for this purpose. Torben wrote a
>> libflashsupport-jack which routes Flash straight to JACK, and
>>
http://jackaudio.org/faq describes ways to get a variety of other
>> desktop software to talk to JACK. I spend all day listening to
>> internet radio and my own music collection via Rhythmbox, browing the
>> catalog at emusic.com, watching Flash *and* working on Ardour ... all
>> via JACK and all without a large, complex layer like PulseAudio in the
>> middle.
>>
>> Some of these are not quite as robust as they should be but it would
>> be far better (I think) to focus resources on making them more robust
>> than introducing PulseAudio as a desktop<->JACK middle layer.
>>
>
> I'm going to have to disagree here. falktx, the guy behind KXStudio, has
> written a very useful script called pulse-jack that configures Pulseaudio
> automatically to work with Jack. I have found this to work better and
> require much less configuration than alsa-jack and allows me to use Skype
> and Google Voice Chat for my podcast. I also use Torben's Flash Jack driver
> and this setup doesn't interfere with pulseaudio or jack. There is NO way to
> get the current version of Skype working with Jack without using Pulseaudio.