Heya!

I just release libcanberra 0.8.

Biggest changes are Joe Marcus Clarke's OSS driver and Marc-Andre
Lureau's GStreamer driver.

http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/

http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/libcanberra-0.8.tar.gz

Please take notice of the new new comments I added to the README:

<snip>
  The OSS driver is incomplete: only sound files that are in a format
  natively understood by the sound card are supported. If the sample
  type, channel map or sampling rate of the sound file are not supported
  by the sound card no automatic conversion will take place and the file
  will not be played. Also note that the OSS backend is most likely
  incompatible with OSS4, due to subtle incompatibilities between OSS4
  and the OSS 3.x.

  It is recommended to always take the "shortest" path from libcanberra
  to the audio device. I.e. don't use the GStreamer plugin if
  libcanberra supports the final output target natively. Besides being
  more resource-friendly and less error-prone, some advanced
  functionality might get lost with each layer you add to your
  stack. For example: while you could use libcanberra's Gstreamer
  backend to output to a PulseAudio server this will not be able to make
  use of sample cacheing or will be able to attach additional meta data
  to the sounds played, which might be necessary for effects like
  positional event sounds.
</snip>

Joe, Marc-Andre, thanks for your contributions to this release!

Have fun,

Lennart

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