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Gone are the days when you could just cat your sound file to /dev/audio.

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Devices

But thanks to backwards compatibility tricks OSS apps can use ALSA and ALSA apps can use OSS.

Daemons

  • But only one app could play sound at a time, so the Daemons came along
  • Arts
  • Jack

  • The biggest Daemon of them all PulseAudio

Mostly old and out of date:

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