http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25962
Summary: Alsa Mic-Capture horrendous recording Quality. Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P2 Component: directx-dsound AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: kyle.leet@gmail.com
First off, you may be asking yourself, why is this marked as a blocker? This sounds like a very minor issue. This is where I'll try to correct you, this effects every single application that supports Audio input. Programs such as Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Reason, KORE, FL Studio, Adobe Audition, even Skype. Although audio recording does function, the quality of the said recording is absolutely horrid, and is garbage by todays standards (in the 60s it may have been considered acceptable). It sounds like you're an alien, in a wind tunnel trying, to start your lawn mower. It's 2011, this has been an issue for well over Six Years now. No one should have to use PulseAudio, OSS, or anything else. Alsa is built into the Kernel, and Wine doesn't support it at all, this to anyone should be disgusting. There's Bug 5159, and quite a few others scattered all over the place. They do not represent the issue as a whole.
Further testing of Audio applications can't even begin to occur until this is fixed. The results are always skewed. This is also what keeps on turning me, among with many others that I know (couple dozen or so) off of Linux. We hate *buntu, everyone else manages to do it properly and utilizes Alsa. Hopefully on Bug day (or even prior to that) this finally gets resolved for good.
Thanks, Kyle.