[servers/soundblaster] Starting the modplayer twice causes an invalid page fault

[perlun]

This is what you get:

Ugly crashes like this should clearly be avoided. What we should do instead is let the soundblaster server detect that the sound card is already busy and reject the call from the modplay process.

Out of scope

Support mixing audio from multiple processes at once. Doing this would be a substantially more advanced topic than just avoiding crashing.

[doverhill]

Mixing audio from multiple "senders" should just be adding up buffers byte-wise (clipping to 255 max)

[perlun]

Mixing audio from multiple "senders" should just be adding up buffers byte-wise (clipping to 255 max)

Are you sure? Sounds almost too simple to me, but... I'm not an expert in computer audio.