[wellylug] Linux sound -- opinions needed ... please.

[Jonathan Harker]

On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 3:46 pm, Nigel Walters wrote:
> Next the choice of sound servers
>
> esd : the gnome sound server. Produces pretty dreadfuil sound and does not
> seem to have any active development ?!
>
> arts : the kde sound server. Sound quality seems Ok and does a respectable
> job. Does not seem to be under active development ?
>
> I want to use a single sound server at least under the two main desktop
> enviroments ( and preferably other window managers too.) Which one is the
> one to go with ? (it might of course not be on the list !)
>
> Any opinions gratefully received. Thanks.

Mandrake 9 has a wee script called /usr/bin/soundwrapper which looks like 
this:

#!/bin/sh

if [ `/sbin/pidof -s artsd` ] ; then
  artsdsp "$@"
else
  if [ `/sbin/pidof -s esd` ]; then
    esddsp "$@"
  else
    "$@"
  fi
fi

which loads whichever server you need for each program. so you can go

soundwrapper mygame

and it will load whichever sound thingy you need.

-- 
Jonathan Harker
MUSAC
Massey University
http://www.massey.ac.nz/

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