In article <200303152218.18778.dan.duley@verizon.net> you write:
>an MP3, and to do basic mixing and volume control. That's *it*. I'm not an 
>expert on audio so this is only my opinion, but it seems like they built a 
>really nice sophisticated audio processing library and made it the default 
>sound server. This is not what is needed. It's too big and getting bigger. 

Not only that, but arts isn't even appropriate for real time audio.

Most audio api let you know what sample they are currently playing (as opposed
to what's currently buffered),this is very handy to synch audio/video (see
ogle for how it's done). arts doesn't offer that feature, you have to use
very small  audio chunks and hope your machine will be fast enough.
 
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