According to http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/#status updated 
September 2012

"libcanberra is mostly feature complete. For now however it includes backends 
only for ALSA, PulseAudio, OSS and GStreamer."

"The OSS driver is incomplete: only sound files that are in a format natively 
understood by the sound card are supported. If the sample type, channel map or 
sampling rate of the sound file are not supported by the sound card no 
automatic conversion will take place and the file will not be played. Also note 
that the OSS backend is most likely incompatible with OSS4, due to subtle 
incompatibilities between OSS4 and the OSS 3.x."

"It is recommended to always take the "shortest" path from libcanberra to the 
audio device. I.e. don't use the GStreamer plugin if libcanberra supports the 
final output target natively. Besides being more resource-friendly and less 
error-prone, some advanced functionality might get lost with each layer you add 
to your stack. For example: while you could use libcanberra's Gstreamer backend 
to output to a PulseAudio server this will not be able to make use of sample 
cacheing or will be able to attach additional meta data to the sounds played, 
which might be necessary for effects like positional event sounds."
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