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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by bigger_cheese on Sunday February 07, 2021 @05:59PM (#26059022)
As far as I know a lot of those api's like aRts and ESD have not been relevant for 10+ years. An article from 2021 mentioning them seems a bit strange and contributes to the impression that things are a lot more fragmented then they really are.

Thing have come a long way since old days when apps used to exclusively lock the sound card.

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by eqvinox on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:41PM (#26067610)
Yes.

This is what it looks like if you only include things that are actually relevant (or don't try to actively make it look bad, IDK why else OpenBSD's sndio would be included in the Linux diagram):

https://aurora.nox.tf/tmp/linux-audio-output.svg

NB: this is specifically the Linux situation, and the original file on wikimedia has a deletion request on it because it's so bad.

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