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by beedogs 3381 days ago
I gave up long ago and simply use audio cards that do hardware mixing. There's no need for anything other than ALSA if you do it that way.
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Unless you want to do filters or additional in/out channels, and more than the card supports.

In my case, I use 3 audio cards, an internal one for speakers, a Behringer Xenxy Q502 for headphones and microphone, and a backend streaming to my phone (in case I wanna walk around the house listening to music via headphones).

Mixing audio into streams for recording, live stream, headphones, etc isn’t easy even with hardware cards unless you spend a LOT of money.