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31.0.50; Problems with play-sound on MS-Windows

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From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo <at> imayhem.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 74863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74863: 31.0.50; Problems with play-sound on MS-Windows
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:07:39 +0100

On 14/12/2024 9:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> - Is sound playing synchronous on purpose?
> 
> It's synchronous because AFAIK the equivalent features on GNU/Linux
> play sound synchronously.  We have a policy of not installing features
> that might put non-free systems at an advantage.  So we can make the
> sound playing on Windows asynchronous (which is very easily done on
> Windows) once there is such a capability on free systems.

Should we add support for PipeWire on GNU/Linux?

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