Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  The virtual audio driver idea might be a good one; it'd impose some
> performance penalty for the simple case (only one audio source), but it'd be
> really nice to be able to play music without losing everything else.
> 

This "multiplexing of audio" is what the Jack toolkit
(http://jackit.sf.net/) does on Linux. It would be great if someone
could port it to NetBSD, but it uses the horribly undocumented ALSA
audio layer by default.

Chris