aRts-0.5.4 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. This release consists of two parts:

The main package: aRts-0.5.4

Contains the framework, libraries, soundserver, communication, command-line utilities and so on (everything you need to run artsd).

The sources are available at http://arts-project.org/download/arts-0.5.4.tar.gz

The extras package: aRts-0.5.4 extras

Contains additional effects, synthesis, artsbuilder runtime, midi, instruments ... - right now there is not too much KDE independant frontend code for this, though.

The sources are available at http://arts-project.org/download/arts-extras-0.5.4.tar.gz

Changes since aRts-0.5.2

What about the artsd versions KDE ships?

This version (arts-0.5.4):

If you have KDE, aRts is already included, so keep using the version of aRts that comes with KDE. If you don't, use this.

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: