bug#74863: 31.0.50; Problems with play-sound on MS-Windows

[Cecilio Pardo]

On 14/12/2024 9:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > - Is sound playing synchronous on purpose?
>
> It's synchronous because AFAIK the equivalent features on GNU/Linux
> play sound synchronously.  We have a policy of not installing features
> that might put non-free systems at an advantage.  So we can make the
> sound playing on Windows asynchronous (which is very easily done on
> Windows) once there is such a capability on free systems.

Should we add support for PipeWire on GNU/Linux?