Re: Sound Alerts

[Subba Rao <subb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On  0, Mrinal Kalakrishnan <mrinal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Subba Rao typed:
> > Now, what happens when multiple alerts are set off at the same time?
> > Do the alerts get queued to the driver?
> 
> One possible solution is you could use ESD - the enlightened sound
> daemon. It allows for mixing of multiple streams of audio. If you're
> using "play" to play a wav now, just replace it with esdplay (if
> you've got esd installed). You should be able to play multiple streams
> simultaneously.
> 
> Of course, this may not be what you want. You could implement some
> queuing system, which holds all incoming requests and plays them one
> after the other.
> 

The esd daemon is running on my system and I have tried the esdplay.
The error message that shows up is,

myhost:~/wav => esdplay alert1.wav
unsupported playback rate: 8000

and

/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

So, obviously this seems to be a queueing problem.

Thanks for the help though.
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