PulseAudio: who is happy with it?

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:13 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> I've been watching PulseAudio queries fly around several mailing 
> lists, and as far as I can tell, the only people who are happy
> with it are doing digital audio workstation projects.
> 
> Is this, in fact, correct? I have no experience with it, and if
> it is not generally of benefit, I would prefer to shut it down
> immediately rather than deal with it whenever it shows up in my
> distributions of choice.

I'm perfectly happy with it on desktop-type boxes, but for my dedicated
mythtv frontend box, I did get annoyed by pulseaudio and deep-sixed it.
My main problem is that it interfered with me outputting raw digital
audio via spdif to my amp, iirc. Supposedly, that can be made to work
now, but I just didn't feel like screwing around with it...

--jarod