Re: play-sound-file & esd

[Richard Stallman]

    Another issue is the sound drivers in the kernel.  The old OSS drivers does 
    not allow more than one open to the sound device, but the newer ALSA 
drivers 
    do.  The new ALSA drivers are default in the Linux kernel now, so the 
original 
    problem does not occur if you are using ALSA drivers.

In that case, I think we don't NEED to do anything.

In the future, we might still want to make Emacs talk to esd or to
GStreamer.  If GStreamer will work thru esd, it would be better for
Emacs to use esd.  Is esd used only in GNOME?  Are there other contexts
that use esd but not GStreamer?

    If we still are going to play sound with esd, may I suggest just execing 
    esdplay with the file name?

If such a simple method does the job, it is fine with me.