People manage this by using a file format which stores channel settings metadata. If you only get the raw audio then you need some external knowledge on how to decode that data. Florin -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Amith Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:48 AM To: Newbies Cc: Gowri Ramasubramanian Subject: Re: Sound Programming. And iam wondering how do people manage code so that it plays a certain channel/format/sampling rate clearly on diff systems - iam confused :-( . -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/