Enlightened Sound Daemon

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

Purpose of a sound server is to ensure that multiple applications can output audio signal simultaneously. These applications are no longer effective even directly on the audio device or its drivers, but instead send the playable audio stream to the sound server. This mixes the streams and then plays the result on the audio device from.

EsounD also features simple Sequenzerfähigkeiten; so samples can be loaded and played back later. Furthermore EsounD is network transparent - a program does not have to run on the same host as the sound server to send audio streams to them.

EsounD is no longer developed since 2000. The successor is PulseAudio, which should be used instead.

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