Program History: EsounD was coded and maintained by Eric B. Mitchell (aka 'Ricdude) before moving on to other things. This was based on a prototype sound daemon created by Carsten Haitzler (aka The Rasterman). Some snips of his code are probably still lurking about, but the overwhelming majority of it was written from scratch. Additional Credits: Chutt <#E>, for insanely agreeing to alpha test, and porting Emusic, to EsounD. Emusic is a highly customizable sound player available from: http://www.icom.net/~smelecat/emp3/index.htm. And for the initial configure setup Elliot Lee , for insanely jumping in and carrying on, during my untimely extended leaves of absence. Shaleh <#E>, for "-Wall -pedantic" cleanup patches adnans <#E>, threshhold clipping patches Peter Asobeck, Sun driver update. Jason Ish, BSD patches and debugging. Jeff Dubrule, mklinux driver and patches. Vendu <#E>, remembering to check for errors in esdcat. Brian M. Almeida, Sun driver update. Simon Kagedal, for esdplay, a generic audio file player. mackman, linuxppc patches. Nick Lopez : ALSA port. Dave Glowacki : audio_hpux patches. Kimball Thurston: audio_irix patches. Mandrake (Geoff Harrison) : making sure the library revision numbers actually come out right. :) Bibek Sahu: Improved ALSA detection algorithms, filters, mixdown optimizations. Jimmy Olsen : hpux driver fixes Manish Singh : misc autoconf hackery, the magic /dev/dsp to esd rerouter. Philippe Defert: aix driver fixes Miodrag Vallat: unnecessary fsync() cleanup, rounding patch. Bob Bell is the man behind audio_osf.c A whole list of people in the ChangeLog, who fail to appear here. The masses of "early adopters" who beat the snot out of esound early on. Your Name Here, simply submit a patch, or port an existing application for use with this package.