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From: Thomas Zimmerman <qubes@aa.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 06:16:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Playing Multiple Audio streams
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Jeff McBride wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Are there any good ways to play several audio sources simultaneously? If
> an application wants to be playing say, several wave files overtop of each
> other, does it have to mix them itself and then play one stream. Or are
> there other drives, or possibly a daemon of some kind to do it?
> 
> And how about multiple applications that are unaware of each other playing
> at the same time?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Jeff

EsounD deamon is what you are looking for. However, the apps need to
know to use ESD to play...