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Michael ,
I'll try to bottom line my reply to you and hope I can encapsulate
Christoph's original point:
He wants to be able to start an audio app and hear it's output. He
doesn't want to see a dialog box pop-up exclaiming that the audio device
is blocked by another app.
This is what he (or maybe it was me) is referring to regarding creating
an audio system for users.
brad