Re: Playing Multiple Audio streams

[lantz moore <lmoore@contigo.com>]

Jeff McBride <trep@trep.dhs.org> writes:

> 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? 

rplay[1], nas[2], and ESounD[3] can all do this very well.

> And how about multiple applications that are unaware of each other playing
> at the same time? 

rplay and ESoundD both have ways of tricking an application into playing
audio via sound servers.  i know that both rplay and esd are under
development, however, i'm not sure about nas.

-l

[1] http://rplay.doit.org
[2] ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/audio/nas/
[3] http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html