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I always hear complains about aRTs, on TLLTS, being a crap solution for multiple audio streams.

Well for a sure fire solution to the problem that aRTs tries so solve, why not just get a sound card with hardware mixing? I use a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 and it works great and only cost me £10 (approx $18). Check out http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/in ... All#matrix, all cards with (3) in the right-most column have hardware mixing.

By the end of the year it won't matter anyway, by then KDE will have their new multimedia frame, which is called Phonon (http://phonon.kde.org), finished, implemeted and hopefully have KDE 4.0 out the door.

Right now a hardware mixing soundcard is great thing, I use a Soundblaster 5.1 Live too, the cool thing about this card is that it just works, and works great.