Re: [9fans] playing music (was RSA)

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

> The audio back end for volume and ajuke is system-specific,
> and only Linux is implemented.  If you add support for another
> system, please mail it to me so I can include it.

maybe the following is a weird idea, but anyway:

I do my daily work on a sun, where I use drawterm to a connect
to a plan 9 cpu server where I run sape's juke player.

On the sun I have named pipe's /tmp/dev/audio and /tmp/dev/volume
and two small programs, one to read audio bytes from /tmp/dev/audio
and shuttle them to the real sun audio device, and another one
to implement enough of the plan 9 /dev/volume interface to
keep sape's juke happy.
(details are at http://plan9.cs.utwente.nl/audio-sun-drawterm/)
In drawterm I 'bind -b /mnt/term/tmp/dev /dev' and then run
sape's stuff.

Would such a scheme fit (could such a scheme be made to fit)
with plan9port, such that all plan 9 (-port) programs assume
a plan 9 style audio interface, and the system specific backends
provide that?
I guess that would help to keep the local system audio specifics
out of the plan9(port) code...

Regards,
Axel.