D Herring wrote:
> Ray wrote:
>> what I found interesting is that artsd was necessary on my machine
>> with onboard audio for multiple streams, whereas with a sblive I could
>> run "play song.mp3" at least 5 times... I think I could do it 64
>> times, but after 5 times I can't tell because the mix is just noise...
>
> As you found, better cards provide hardware mixing; the rest mix in
> software.
>
>> I still would think that that should be a function of alsa and then
>> have no need for artsd or esound etc... but I guess that's how things
>> evolved vs a clean design...
>
> Things are slowly moving in that direction. IIRC, KDE4 will no longer
> require arts. Several years ago, I remember the standard answer as
> being "if you care, buy a real sound card".
>
> - Daniel

I just read a page this morning talking about KDE4 and sound and how
artsd is dead. Still don't understand why KDE needs it's own sound
system instead of just using ALSA ... it uses X instead of providing
it's own version of X...