Simultanous Sounds?

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Limburg [mailto:mlimburg at users.on.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:12 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Simultanous Sounds?
> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Any ideas on how to have two (or more) applications be able to play
> sounds at the same time?  When I have XMMS playing Internet radio, I
> can't get system sounds, effects in Frozen Bubble or UT/Q3A, 
> etc.  I've
> tried other variations also .. all with no success.  Another example
> I've seen is my 'new mail' sound has rung out just as I'm starting to
> play Chromium, and Chromium didn't have any sound.  I quit it, started
> it again, and it was there.
> 
> What sound deamon should I be using, esound, OSS, ALSA .. and how do I
> set these up?  And links to webpages to help?

Try esd  The esound Daemon..

When I use that, I can play xine and xmms together..