Re: sound part two

On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:37, Devlor Nakarti wrote:
> Alan James suggested a Soundblaster Live or Audigy to allow multiple
> accesses. From what I've seen, this is even possible with the old
> SoundBlaster 16 ISA. (Did I say old?  I meant archaic.  Still work great,
> though.)
> I would think most hardware-driven(NOT AC97) audio devices are like this.

These ancient devices, (yes, even AC97) generally don't allow more
than one sound source at a time.  That's why there is such a thing as
artsd, which multi-plexes the sound card allowing you to listen
to two things at once...  It blends the sound sources (music and
incomming mail notifications for instance) and feed one sound
stream to the card.  Arts is AWEsome, even when when your
soundcard isn't. 

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John Andersen