aRts-0.5.2 release

What is in this release?

This release contains a standalone version of the artsd sound server. Running artsd will allow you to let multiple applications play and record sounds at once, network transparently. Please refer to the documentation for further details on what aRts can do.

The sources are available at http://arts-project.org/download/arts-0.5.2.tar.gz

What about the artsd versions KDE ships?

This version (arts-0.5.2):

If you have KDE, don't change it. If you don't, use this. Ideally, all toolkit independant parts that are missing in this release could be packaged in an arts-extras package, to make them available for the standalone versions.

CSL - Common Sound Layer

If you are here, you also might be interested in CSL (common sound layer), which offers a plain C implementation of sound output to aRts and OSS. Look at: