From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lantz moore Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:36:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Playing Multiple Audio streams Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Jeff McBride 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