Yes, if people say that esound was already outdated by 2003, then by now it should be very much dead. But I was more focused on completing this project than on

Yes, if people say that esound was already outdated by 2003, then by now it should be very much dead. But I was more focused on completing this project than on researching sound APIs, thus I simply took whatever Xoscope guys used. After all, we simply want to read voltage level from simple input - why should we need to invent new library for it every 3 years?