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by amyjess 3586 days ago
> If your audio chipset doesn't have a hardware mixer, and about of half of laptop chipsets don't, then you can't play more than one stream at a time.

Not true. ALSA with dmix can do software mixing, and dmix is enabled by default.

I also really miss ESD, which also enabled software mixing (this was before dmix) but was far simpler and wasn't this over-complicated mess like PulseAudio.

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dmix is terribly broken.