Great! Want to see something really cool?
Linux doesn't support hardware mixing, however Esound does support software mixing.
Which means you can play multple sounds (or mp3's) simultaneously. To do so, you must
use esd for all of your sound programs. Try opening up multple copies of xmms and
playing several mp3s at once.
For a better show, use the console mp3 player:
mpg123 -Z /home/<name>/mp3/*.mp3 &
Then press 'up' to get the command again, and run it again. Your mpg123 must be
compiled with esd support. (it should be on mandrake, don't know about others.)
Alternatively, if it doesn't have esd support, you can do:
esddsp mpg123 ..<same>... &
(-Z means random, the & is a bash function meaning background the task use 'killall
mpg123' to stop them)
Try seeing how many mp3's you can play before you notice sound degredation. ;)
My pentium 200 at home can do about 6.
Cory
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:32:47PM -0700, Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now! wrote:
> Hey... I was having a heck of a time wiht xmms locking up... It turns out
> I have 2 output plugin options, since im using enlightenment, i changed it
> from the oss driver to the esd driver... now it hasnt locked up yet, and
> its played for over an hour!
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