Alternatives to polypaudio (bug #339589)

[Andreas Ehn <ehn@kth.se>]

Hi,

When I switched from OSS to ALSA a few years ago, I started having
problems with ESD. In particular, it often would not release the sound
device, so that non-ESD-enabled programs could use it when ESD didn't
need it.

Then I discovered polypaudio, and since I sitched to that sound daemon,
I haven't had any more problems. But now polypaudio is being removed
from Debian:

	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339589

Are there any other alternative ESD-compatible sound daemons that I
could try? Or does ESD work well with ALSA for everybody else?

Thanks and merry Christmas,
Andreas