Enlightened Sound Daemon

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The Enlightened Sound Daemon , EsounD or esd for short , is a sound server that is used by the Enlightenment window manager and was standard on many Linux distributions .

The purpose of a sound server is to ensure that several applications can output audio signals at the same time. To do this, the applications themselves no longer access the audio device or its driver directly, but instead send the audio stream to be played back to the sound server. This mixes the currents and then plays the result via the audio device.

EsounD also has basic sequencer skills ; so samples can be loaded and played back later. EsounD is also network-transparent - a program does not have to be running on the same host as the sound server in order to send audio streams to it.

EsounD has not been further developed since 2000. The successor is PulseAudio , which should be used instead.

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