esound-0.2.26: description + notes
The Enlightened Sound Daemon is the desktop sound component for
the Gnome desktop environment. See the
EsounD Home Page
for details.
Many of today's applications use sound for various forms of
feedback. Messenging applications (ICQ, AIM, etc.) use sounds to
notify you of incoming messages. Many people play songs on their
computers in high compression formats like RealPlayer and Mpeg layer
3. However, when two or more applications want to play sounds at the
same time, it's on a first-come, first-served basis. Whoever gets to
the audio device first wins. EsounD changes all of that...
The Enlightened Sound Daemon mixes several audio streams for
playback by a single audio device. You can also pre-load samples, and
play them back without having to send all the data for the
sound. Network transparency is also built in, so you can play sounds
on one machine, and listen to them on another.
On IRIX the esd daemon has difficulty handling 16-bit data
and data sampled at rates other than 8KHz. To work around this you can
use sfconvert to recode sound files. A command similar to
"sfconvert old.wav new.wav format wave int 8
unsigned chan 1 rate 8000" should work.
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