On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:23:33 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Try playing sound from 2 or more apps at once on hardware with no hardware mixing (or with hardware mixing not supported by the ALSA driver), it just won't work without PulseAudio (or dmix, which has its own share of compatibility problems).
Then try making sense out of 2 or more apps playing at once and wonder why anyone cares if it works or not.