A new Build of Raspberry Pi OS has been released

[TheOldPresbyope]

Note that there's a new release of Raspberry PI OS out:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-ras...mber-2020/

Of particular interest to those using Pis as audio streamers:

"From this release onwards, we are switching Raspberry Pi OS to use the PulseAudio sound server."

Fun!  Or maybe not.

Cheers,

Phil

Hi, Phil.

I posted a message to the test team yesterday that read almost identically to yours.  

However, last night after downloading and examining the 2020-12-02-raspios-buster-lite image, and exploring the apt repo, I found that PulseAudio is not present in the image. (I suppose it is present by default in the full Desktop image.) Even better, the versions of the major packages needed to build moOde haven't changed. I was able to build moOde 6.7.1 using a slightly tweaked mosbuild on a running 2020-12-02 raspios. Easy peasy.

I'm a trained monkey where the Linux audio pipeline is concerned. AIUI PulseAudio is purely userland code which runs on top of ALSA so it isn't necessary but apparently it makes easier some of the things that currently are hard to do with just the ALSA complement of modules.

So, moOde builds and works on the new release but going forward I expect to see some mods and additions to moOde code to take advantage of useful features in PulseAudio.

Regards,
Kent