[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#384029: Rate plugin not included in libasound2-plugins

[Marc Brooker]

Package: libasound2-plugins
Version: 1.0.11-1

Since alsa-libs 1.0.11 the alsa-plugins source has included a
plugin which adds high quality sample rate conversion support
to ALSA by linking to libsamplerate.

This plugin is not built and packaged in the
libasound2-plugins package. I suggest that this plugin be
included in libasound2-plugins or packaged in it's own
package. The package would need to depend on libsamplerate0.

A high quality sample rate conversion plugin is extremely
useful as the standard SRC algorithm used in ALSA offers
poor audio quality, with high levels of noise and harmonic
distortion. Including this plugin with the ALSA packages
would make it simpler to configure ALSA for excellent
sound quality - closer to the capabilities of the hardware
and expectations of the users.

I am using Debian GNU/Linux unstable, kernel 2.6.16.9
and libc6 2.3.6-16.