Look ma, esd is on Slashdot! Only 22 responses, though. Here's mine. If I interpret apathy as tacit approval, that's not doing too bad. One of these days, I really should rewrite the server, at least. I have some ideas about what should be done at the base level, but as always, time is hard to come by. It'll definitely have to wait until I get moved into the new house at least (6 to 8 weeks). Probably try to pick it up again next year, new year's resolution, etc. Strange, I recently ranted at gnome-hackers about esound. Coincidence? (insert medley of Twilight Zone, X-Files, and FreakyLinks themes) Also got a nice email from a technical guy at Real requesting synch support. Kind of hard to do with the current socket based IPC, but wouldn't be too hard with a shared memory transport layer. Be a heck of a lot easier, at least. Next year...