[long] sound-server history Re: [linux-audio-user] What's arts?

[Daniel James]

There is an argument for not using a general-purpose sound server when 
making music. Anecdote: a few years back, there was a song that got 
quite a bit of radio airplay that featured somewhere in the middle 
the sound effect on Windows for 'you've got mail'.  It used to annoy 
the hell out of people who listened to the radio while working on 
their computer, and the radio station I was listening to at the time 
got a few complaints.

So they decided to ask the musicians why this sound was on the record. 
The answer was that during the final mixdown, capturing the song to 
DAT tape or whatever, the person doing the mixdown had left the room 
for a minute - during that minute, some email arrived and the alert 
sound was played through the soundcard. The guy comes back into the 
room - the capture is done, and off goes the DAT to the CD pressing 
plant...  

Cheers

Daniel