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Hi Bjarne,

>>I do not believe you need it.  I am running XMMS under KDE with no arts
>>plugin without any problems at all.
>>    
>>
>
>You don't *need* it, but xmms will lock the sound-device while playing and 
>thus hindering kde-apps using it. One solution is to use vchans, but it sound 
>*awfull* with my HW. An arts-plugin to xmms would be really nice, but I never 
>got the plugin working apart from crashing everythin IIRC.
>  
>

You can start every sound application with a preceding "artsdsp".
So e.g. call xmms with
artsdsp xmms &

This will wrap the xmms sound to the arts daemon, without blocking.
Look at:
http://docs.kde.org/en/3.1/kdemultimedia/artsbuilder/artsdsp.html


Ciao
Siegbert