On Saturday 25 April 2009 17:34:25 Rémy Maucherat wrote:
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Bill Crawford
<billcrawford1970(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 April 2009 03:39:43 Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>> Reading the IRC log, the Fesco members technical arguments sound
>> limited, and do focus on legacy use cases. That's really 10 years old
>> stuff (CD line in - PC speaker was mentioned too - unused for me in
>> that timeframe ...), so if this does not represent less than 5% of
>> users, I wonder what will.
>
> This is one of the most annoying attitudes throughout this debate. I
> still use a CD line-in on my soundcard. It might be "10 years old" stuff
> ... my sound card is 7 years old. But it *still works* ... why should I
> not use it?
- one less cable
- much lower quality
- newer readers do not have that output anymore
... doesn't skip if the IDE interface gets some heavy traffic, or my CPU is
briefly very overloaded?