> Yes. BTW: have a look here: > http://www.portaudio.com/docs/proposals/status.html > this should support jack, alsa, oss, so its definitely a > good thing, and also non linux systems (sgi, mac, windows). > > I unfortunately do not have the time to look on the api > specs and sample implementations, but i'm sure, if u create > such an high portable api, you'll sacrifice some of teh > native apis advanced features. I'm too unexperienced to read the API. I know that audacity uses portaudio to make it a cross platform application. So, it's certainly a good idea, but unfortunately, portaudio is even not a soundserver but an audio abstraction layer. I'm not looking for a cross platform layer but at first at a common unix audio server. As soon as we have one, then it might be a good idea to move portaudio as a further layer between audio applications and the new layer to make them possibly compile cross platform. Gru? & regards ce