why artsd?

[Dik Takken]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I am using Debian sarge-testing with KDE 3.3 and what really annoys me is the artsd sound daemon.
> It has a high latency, is full of unnecessary functions (it is a software synthesizer by design, mind you!) and it does not support 24 bits samples.
> The obvious choice, now that it is there, is the jack audio connection server which is:

If you look in the archives of this mailing list, you can see that the 
artsd issue has been discussed various times already. If you have more 
new and enlightening views that have not been discussed already, feel free 
to post them.. :)

Dik