[ale] Remote Sound
David Corbin
dcorbin at machturtle.com
Mon Sep 15 17:58:27 EDT 2003
On Monday 15 September 2003 11:31, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:>
> All I can say is I've looked at the source to esd and I hate it. It has
> major waeknesses. I've heard that artsd is better, but never checked it
> out. I suspect that for system beeps, etc, either is fine and esd is more
> lightweight. Since I use KDE I use artsd and haven't had problems.
>
> Back when I was building an audio jukebox we did a lot with esd and the
> code base was weak in the audio area. It also appeared to be unmaintained.
> We could never find anyone to send patches to. artsd seems to be
> maintained, which is a Good Thing.
>
Yes. A very good thing. Thanks. Can you perhaps explain what full-duplex
means in the context of artsd?
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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>
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