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I'm guessing this is referring to the windows backend as I remember briefly seeing some documentation on this when working on the wasapi backend. Could you elaborate on how exclusive mode behaves differently from shared mode? Do you see a path towards supporting this for all backends?
When in exclusive mode you can write (or read, I guess) directly to (from) the hardware. It is therefore faster than shared mode, but no other application can access the device in the meanwhile, and we cannot access it if another application already uses it in shared mode.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I guess this might be useful for some pro-audio software like DAWs and live performance applications. That said, I don't remember seeing anything like this in the coreaudio or alsa backends.
I guess if this were to be implemented, it would be an addition of a whole new wasapi_exclusive backend, perhaps enabled by a feature?
Alternatively, we could introduce something similar to PortAudio's Host API? I've opened up #204 for discussion.
Hog mode is important if you go for the best audio quality. For example, streaming software clients such as Spotify and Tidal have hog mode support. Spotify turns this on by default.
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mitchmindtree commentedon Feb 12, 2018
I'm guessing this is referring to the windows backend as I remember briefly seeing some documentation on this when working on the wasapi backend. Could you elaborate on how exclusive mode behaves differently from shared mode? Do you see a path towards supporting this for all backends?
tomaka commentedon Feb 12, 2018
When in exclusive mode you can write (or read, I guess) directly to (from) the hardware. It is therefore faster than shared mode, but no other application can access the device in the meanwhile, and we cannot access it if another application already uses it in shared mode.
mitchmindtree commentedon Feb 12, 2018
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I guess this might be useful for some pro-audio software like DAWs and live performance applications. That said, I don't remember seeing anything like this in the coreaudio or alsa backends.
I guess if this were to be implemented, it would be an addition of a whole new
wasapi_exclusivebackend, perhaps enabled by a feature?Alternatively, we could introduce something similar to PortAudio's
HostAPI? I've opened up #204 for discussion.blueneogeo commentedon May 10, 2020
CoreAudio also has a hog mode property: kAudioDevicePropertyHogMode
Hog mode is important if you go for the best audio quality. For example, streaming software clients such as Spotify and Tidal have hog mode support. Spotify turns this on by default.
blueneogeo commentedon Mar 29, 2021
Any update on this? Or is it already implemented in one of the other closed tickets?