Hi. In the mpg123 source there are many different make cases: make linux Linux (i386, Pentium or unlisted platform) make linux-3dnow Linux, output 3DNow!(TM) optimized code (ie with 'as' from binutils-2.9.1.0.19a or later) make linux-alsa Linux with ALSA sound driver make linux-esd Linux, output to EsounD And I would be interested especially in the last one for esd! I put "esd" in my /etc/make.conf... But mpg123 doesn't seem to use esd (because I can start only one mpg123 at a time)... --- BTW: What about jack support for mpg123? Is it planned? Does someone now something about it? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mpg123 2. mpg123 "bla.mp3" & 3. mpg123 "blub.mp3" Actual Results: bla.mp3 and blub.mp3 are NOT played together! Expected Results: bla.mp3 and blub.mp3 should be played together (mixed (by esd))! Portage 2.0.50-r3 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-rc3-mm4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-rc3-mm4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://212.219.247.11/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.12/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acp aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal fam fbcon firebird flac foomaticdb gb gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hardened icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mbox memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l videos wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv yahoo zlib"
-r3 supports nas and esd.