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On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 10:31 -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:

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> I'll try to bottom line my reply to you and hope I can encapsulate

> Christoph's original point:

>

> He wants to be able to start an audio app and hear it's output. He

> doesn't want to see a dialog box pop-up exclaiming that the audio device

> is blocked by another app.

>

> This is what he (or maybe it was me) is referring to regarding creating

> an audio system for users.

Hasn't anyone been listening?  dmix can do this now.  It's a bug in your

distro if this blocking behavior is the default.  There's no excuse for

it.
As for closed apps using the OSS API, if they won't port their software

to ALSA, what makes you think they'd port it to this new API?
Lee