esound

[Matthew Carpenter]

I just found this little gem which solved an issue which had me quite 
disheartened about Linux on the Desktop...

Have you ever been playing MP3's and had an application (say, KIT or GAIM) try 
to beep to signal some other communication?  I used to run Everybuddy while 
playing MP3's, and when I would stop playing music, I would get the longest 
catenation of beeps, whistles, etc....  It was quite annoying.  XMMS was 
using the sound card, so everybuddy couldn't get to it (it got queued).
Well, esound (for COL, it's found at their ftp2 site:  
ftp://ftp2.caldera.com/pub/soss/RPMS/ ) promises to eliminate that problem.  
I am quite geeked.  You can also find this rpm along with the everybuddy rpm 
at my site:  http://www.r4780y.com/public/IM/

I just thought I would pass that along.  I haven't seen anything about it 
before so I wondered how many others didn't realize it's existence.

Matt