aRts needs to be replaced (was Re: Disabling aRts in knotify)

[Stefan Gehn]

Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2004 17:13 schrieb Guillaume Laurent:
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 16:52, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> > So you want a mediaplayer that has no equalizer?
>
> A media player is not a soundserver.

And not every mediaplayer should have to code its own mp3 decoder, equalizer 
and whatnot. Then it could as well go and pump data directly into /dev/dsp 
because there's not much work left anymore and thus no soundserver is needed.

> > You don't want to set
> > different volumes for different apps?
>
> That's each app job, not the soundserver's.

I don't think so.

> > Even if you don't need all of the above I can assure you that there are
> > people out there that want/need features like that.
>
> None of them belongs in a sound server.

But that's the reason why there's arts. Don't reinvent the wheel all the time. 
Just because some app wants to adjust its sound volume it would need its own 
code to do so.
Same for all of the above. Arts was made to support applying such stuff to 
soundstreams and that's what many apps need.

Bye, Stefan aka mETz