Program History:

    EsounD was coded and maintained by Eric B. Mitchell (aka 'Ricdude) <ericmit@ix.netcom.com>
    before moving on to other things.

    This was based on a prototype sound daemon created by Carsten 
    Haitzler (aka The Rasterman).  Some snips of his code are 
    probably still lurking about, but the overwhelming majority 
    of it was written from scratch.

Additional Credits:

    Chutt <#E>, for insanely agreeing to alpha test, and porting 
    Emusic, to EsounD.  Emusic is a highly customizable sound player
    available from:  http://www.icom.net/~smelecat/emp3/index.htm.
    And for the initial configure setup

    Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>, for insanely jumping in and
    carrying on, during my untimely extended leaves of absence.

    Shaleh <#E>, for "-Wall -pedantic" cleanup patches

    adnans <#E>, threshhold clipping patches

    Peter Asobeck, Sun driver update.

    Jason Ish, BSD patches and debugging.

    Jeff Dubrule, mklinux driver and patches.

    Vendu <#E>, remembering to check for errors in esdcat.

    Brian M. Almeida, Sun driver update.

    Simon Kagedal, for esdplay, a generic audio file player.

    mackman, linuxppc patches.

    Nick Lopez <kimo_sabe@usa.net>: ALSA port.

    Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU>: audio_hpux patches.

    Kimball Thurston: audio_irix patches.

    Mandrake (Geoff Harrison) <mandrake@mandrake.net>: making sure
    the library revision numbers actually come out right. :)

    Bibek Sahu: Improved ALSA detection algorithms, filters, mixdown
    optimizations. 

    Jimmy Olsen <jo@hrp.no>: hpux driver fixes

    Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>: misc autoconf hackery, the magic
    /dev/dsp to esd rerouter.

    Philippe Defert: aix driver fixes

    Miodrag Vallat: unnecessary fsync() cleanup, rounding patch.

    Bob Bell <bobbell@zk3.dec.com> is the man behind audio_osf.c

    A whole list of people in the ChangeLog, who fail to appear here.

    The masses of "early adopters" who beat the snot out of esound
    early on.

    Your Name Here, simply submit a patch, or port an existing 
    application for use with this package.