=head1 NAME

esd - The Enlightened Sound Daemon

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Starts up EsounD, which provides a sound mixing server.

=head1 USAGE

esd [options]

  -d DEVICE   force esd to use sound device DEVICE
  -b          run server in 8 bit sound mode
  -r RATE     run server at sample rate of RATE
  -as SECS    free audio device after SECS of inactivity
  -unix       use unix domain sockets instead of tcp/ip
  -tcp        use tcp/ip sockets instead of unix domain
  -public     make tcp/ip access public (other than localhost)
  -terminate  terminate esd daemone after last client exits
  -nobeeps    do not play startup beeps
  -port PORT  listen for connections at PORT (only for tcp/ip)


Possible devices are:  /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp2, etc.

=head1 FILES

/etc/esound/esd.conf			daemon configuration file

/etc/esound/esd.conf is a file of key=value pairs.  There may also be a section
delimiter to placate gnome_config.  There are three options:

=head2 auto_spawn

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0 or 1 indicating whether the esd library should automatically spawn a
daemon if one is not running when a sound is played.  This option is
not recommended for Gnome users who have enabled sound for events in
Gnome.

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=head2 spawn_options

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a string with the command line to be passed to esd when it is
automatically spawned by the library

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=head2 spawn_wait_ms

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the number of miliseconds to wait for the daemon to successfully
start.  If the daemon is not started by the timeout, the application
will act as if the audio open failed.

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=head1 SEE ALSO

esdcat(1), esddsp(1), esdloop(1), esdplay(1), esdsample(1),
esd-config(1), esdctl(1), esdfilt(1), esdmon(1), esdrec(1)