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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews
>> <matthews.willie@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?
>>
>> alsa dmix
>>
>
> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's
> how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default.

Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.