[alsa-devel] [PATCH] hdspm: native float

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Florian Faber wrote:

> > > It is a global change. The only use case is for jack, and jack doesn't
> > > use different formats for input/output.
> > "Using aplay + arecord" is a second use case.  :-)

> And they would willingly choose different formats?

A moderately common case is recording voice quality audio (at 8kHz or
so) and playing back higher quality audio.