You should check airfoil [1]. It's a multiplatform sound system but it's not open source. Haven't actually tried it myself as pulseaudio fits my needs.
** refs: [1] http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Willie Matthews > <matthews.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something >> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? >> >> -- >> >> Willie Matthews >> matthews.wil...@gmail.com >> > > Jack handles multiple streams very well but it's difficult to use if > you're not willing to invest a lot of time and not all apps support > it. > > I've never used pulseaudio so I cannot speak to that personally. > > I also wonder what KDE is doing under the hood. I use multiple VMs all > day long - both VMWare Player and Virtualbox. I get audio from both of > those at the same time, as well as from Firefox or xine running native > in Linux, so I'm doing multiple streams and mixing them in KDE all > automatically. I've never studied how KDE does it, but empirically it > certainly can do multiple streams. > > HTH, > Mark >
