Suggest to disable artsd by default

[Manuel McLure]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:44:03 -0500, "Paul Dufresne" <dufresnep at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I say that not running artsd at all, would not make very
> much different because up to now, it seems that 'only' KDE
> use it. Sure the best would be to make kaffeine and amarok
> look for artsd in the first place, and use it to make sound.
> But I believe we are in feature freeze right now, and that
> it is not a good idea to begin that task now.

Amarok already supports using artsd for output. You set it up in the Engine options. I use it myself because the ALSA driver for my sound card does a really crappy job of converting sample rates, and when I play an 44.1KHz sample rate internet stream on my 48KHz driver it crackles. Playing through artsd solves this problem.

I expect that Kaffeine can also play through artsd, but I haven't tried it.