diff --git a/flow/CMakeLists.txt b/flow/CMakeLists.txt
index 14a72aa..32bb29b 100644
--- a/flow/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/flow/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ set( ${target}_SRCS
   stereovolumecontrol_impl.cpp stereoeffectstack_impl.cpp
   fft.c stereofftscope_impl.cpp virtualports.cpp bus.cpp
   audiomanager_impl.cpp synth_record_impl.cpp resample.cpp
-  audioio.cpp audioiooss.cpp audioioalsa.cpp audioioalsa9.cpp
+  audioio.cpp audioiooss.cpp audioioalsa9.cpp
   audioionull.cpp audioiolibaudioio.cpp audioioesd.cpp audioiosndio.cpp
   audioiojack.cpp audioiosun.cpp audioioaix.cpp audioionas.cpp
   cpuinfo.cpp audioioossthreaded.cpp audiotobytestream_impl.cpp
diff --git a/flow/audioioalsa.cpp b/flow/audioioalsa.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b8d485..0000000
--- a/flow/audioioalsa.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,561 +0,0 @@
-    /*
-
-    Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Jozef Kosoru
-                            jozef.kosoru@pobox.sk
-			  (C) 2000,2001 Stefan Westerfeld
-			                stefan@space.twc.de
-
-    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
-    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-  
-    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-    Library General Public License for more details.
-   
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
-    along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
-    the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
-    Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
-
-    */
-
-#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
-#include <config.h>
-#endif
-
-/**
- * only compile 'alsa' AudioIO class if configure thinks it is a good idea
- */
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBASOUND
-
-#ifdef HAVE_ALSA_ASOUNDLIB_H
-#include <alsa/asoundlib.h>
-#elif defined(HAVE_SYS_ASOUNDLIB_H)
-#include <sys/asoundlib.h>
-#endif
-
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <sys/ioctl.h>
-#include <sys/time.h>
-#include <sys/stat.h>
-
-#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
-#include <sys/select.h>		// Needed on some systems.
-#endif
-
-#include <assert.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <fcntl.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-#include <iostream>
-#include <algorithm>
-
-#include "debug.h"
-#include "audioio.h"
-
-namespace Arts {
-
-class AudioIOALSA : public AudioIO {
-protected:
-	int audio_read_fd;
-	int audio_write_fd;
-	int requestedFragmentSize;
-	int requestedFragmentCount;
-
-	enum BufferMode{block, stream};
-	int m_card;
-	int m_device;
-	int m_format;
-	BufferMode m_bufferMode;
-
-	snd_pcm_t *m_pcm_handle;
-	snd_pcm_channel_info_t m_cinfo;
-	snd_pcm_format_t m_cformat;
-	snd_pcm_channel_params_t m_params;
-	snd_pcm_channel_setup_t m_setup;
-
-	int setPcmParams(const int channel);
-	void checkCapabilities();
-
-public:
-	AudioIOALSA();
-
-	void setParam(AudioParam param, int& value);
-	int getParam(AudioParam param);
-
-	bool open();
-	void close();
-	int read(void *buffer, int size);
-	int write(void *buffer, int size);
-};
-
-REGISTER_AUDIO_IO(AudioIOALSA,"alsa","Advanced Linux Sound Architecture");
-};
-
-using namespace std;
-using namespace Arts;
-
-AudioIOALSA::AudioIOALSA()
-{
- 	param(samplingRate) = 44100;
-	paramStr(deviceName) = "/dev/dsp"; //!! alsa doesn't need this
-	requestedFragmentSize = param(fragmentSize) = 1024;
-	requestedFragmentCount = param(fragmentCount) = 7;
-	param(channels) = 2;
-	param(direction) = directionWrite;
-
-	/*
-	 * default parameters
-	 */
-    m_card = snd_defaults_pcm_card();  //!! need interface !!
-    m_device = snd_defaults_pcm_device(); //!!
-#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
-    m_format = SND_PCM_SFMT_S16_BE;
-#else
-    m_format = SND_PCM_SFMT_S16_LE;
-#endif
-    m_bufferMode = block;  //block/stream (stream mode doesn't work yet)
-
-	if(m_card >= 0) {
-    	char* cardname = 0;
-
-    	if(snd_card_get_name(m_card, &cardname) == 0 && cardname != 0)
-		{
-			//!! thats not what devicename is intended to do
-			//!! devicename is an input information into
-			//!! the "driver", to select which card to use
-			//!! not an output information
-    		paramStr(deviceName) = cardname;
-    		free(cardname);
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-bool AudioIOALSA::open()
-{
-	string& _error = paramStr(lastError);
-	string& _deviceName = paramStr(deviceName);
-	int& _channels = param(channels);
-	int& _fragmentSize = param(fragmentSize);
-	int& _fragmentCount = param(fragmentCount);
-	int& _samplingRate = param(samplingRate);
-	int& _direction = param(direction);
-	int& _format = param(format);
-
-	/*
-	 * initialize format - TODO: implement fallback (i.e. if no format given,
-	 * it should try 16bit first, then fall back to 8bit)
-	 */
-	switch(_format)
-	{
-		default:	_format = 16;
-
-		case 16:	// 16bit, signed little endian
-				m_format = SND_PCM_SFMT_S16_LE;
-			break;
-
-		case 17:	// 16bit, signed big endian
-				m_format = SND_PCM_SFMT_S16_BE;
-			break;
-
-		case 8:		// 8bit, unsigned
-				m_format = SND_PCM_SFMT_U8;
-			break;
-	}
-
-	/* open pcm device */
-	int mode = SND_PCM_OPEN_NONBLOCK;
-
-	if(_direction == directionReadWrite)
-    	mode |= SND_PCM_OPEN_DUPLEX;
-	else if(_direction == directionWrite)
-    	mode |= SND_PCM_OPEN_PLAYBACK;
-	else
-	{
-		_error = "invalid direction";
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	int err;
-	if((err = snd_pcm_open(&m_pcm_handle, m_card, m_device, mode)) < 0) {
-		_error = "device: ";
-		_error += _deviceName.c_str();
-		_error += " can't be opened (";
-		_error += snd_strerror(err);
-		_error += ")";
-		return false;
-	}
-	else {
-		artsdebug("ALSA driver: %s", _deviceName.c_str());
-	}
-
-	snd_pcm_nonblock_mode(m_pcm_handle, 0);
-
-	/* flush buffers */
-	(void)snd_pcm_capture_flush(m_pcm_handle);
-	if(_direction & directionRead)
-		(void)snd_pcm_channel_flush(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE);
-	if(_direction & directionWrite)
-		(void)snd_pcm_channel_flush(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK);
-
-	/* check device capabilities */
-	checkCapabilities();
-
-	/* set the fragment settings to what the user requested */
-	_fragmentSize = requestedFragmentSize;
-	_fragmentCount = requestedFragmentCount;
-
-  	/* set PCM communication parameters */
-  	if((_direction & directionRead) && setPcmParams(SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE))
-		return false;
-  	if((_direction & directionWrite) && setPcmParams(SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK))
-		return false;
-
-  	/* prepare channel */
-    if((_direction & directionRead) &&
-		snd_pcm_channel_prepare(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE) < 0)
-	{
-      	_error = "Unable to prepare capture channel!";
-		return false;
-    }
-    if((_direction & directionWrite) &&
-    	snd_pcm_channel_prepare(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK) < 0)
-	{
-    	_error = "Unable to prepare playback channel!";
-	  	return false;
-    }
-
-	/* obtain current PCM setup (may differ from requested one) */
-	(void)memset(&m_setup, 0, sizeof(m_setup));
-
-	m_setup.channel = SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK;
-	if(snd_pcm_channel_setup(m_pcm_handle, &m_setup) < 0) {
-    	_error = "Unable to obtain channel setup!";
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	/* check samplerate */
-	const int tolerance = _samplingRate/10+1000;
-	if(abs(m_setup.format.rate-_samplingRate) > tolerance)
-	{
-		_error = "Can't set requested sampling rate!";
-		char details[80];
-		sprintf(details," (requested rate %d, got rate %d)",
-            _samplingRate, m_setup.format.rate);
-    	_error += details;
-		return false;
-  	}
-	_samplingRate = m_setup.format.rate;
-
-	/* check format */
-	if(m_setup.format.format != m_format) {
-    	_error = "Can't set requested format:";
-    	_error += snd_pcm_get_format_name(m_format);
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	/* check voices */
-	if(m_setup.format.voices != _channels) {
-		_error = "Audio device doesn't support number of requested channels!";
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	/* update fragment settings with what we got */
-	switch(m_bufferMode) {
-		case block:
-      			_fragmentSize = m_setup.buf.block.frag_size;
-      			_fragmentCount = m_setup.buf.block.frags_max-1;
-      		break;
-    	case stream:
-      			_fragmentSize = m_setup.buf.stream.queue_size;
-      			_fragmentCount = 1;
-      		break;
-  	}
-
-  	artsdebug("buffering: %d fragments with %d bytes "
-            "(audio latency is %1.1f ms)", _fragmentCount, _fragmentSize,
-            (float)(_fragmentSize*_fragmentCount) /
-            (float)(2.0 * _samplingRate * _channels)*1000.0);
-
-  	/* obtain PCM file descriptor(s) */
-	audio_read_fd = audio_write_fd = -1;
-
-	if(_direction & directionRead)
-  		audio_read_fd = snd_pcm_file_descriptor(m_pcm_handle,
-												SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE);
-	if(_direction & directionWrite)
-  		audio_write_fd = snd_pcm_file_descriptor(m_pcm_handle,
-												SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK);
-
-  	/* start recording */
-  	if((_direction & directionRead) && snd_pcm_capture_go(m_pcm_handle)) {
-    	_error = "Can't start recording!";
-		return false;
-  	}
-
-  	return true;
-}
-
-void AudioIOALSA::close()
-{
-	int& _direction = param(direction);
-	if(_direction & directionRead)
-		(void)snd_pcm_channel_flush(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE);
-	if(_direction & directionWrite)
-		(void)snd_pcm_channel_flush(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK);
-	(void)snd_pcm_close(m_pcm_handle);
-}
-
-void AudioIOALSA::setParam(AudioParam p, int& value)
-{
-	switch(p)
-	{
-		case fragmentSize:
-				param(p) = requestedFragmentSize = value;
-			break;
-		case fragmentCount:
-				param(p) = requestedFragmentCount = value;
-			break;
-		default:
-				param(p) = value;
-			break;
-	}
-}
-
-int AudioIOALSA::getParam(AudioParam p)
-{
-    snd_pcm_channel_status_t status;
-    (void)memset(&status, 0, sizeof(status));
-
-	switch(p)
-	{
-		case canRead:
-      			status.channel = SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE;
-      			if(snd_pcm_channel_status(m_pcm_handle, &status) < 0) {
-        			arts_warning("Capture channel status error!");
-        			return -1;
-      			}
-				return status.free;
-			break;
-
-		case canWrite:
-      			status.channel = SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK;
-      			if(snd_pcm_channel_status(m_pcm_handle, &status) < 0) {
-        			arts_warning("Playback channel status error!");
-        			return -1;
-      			}
-				return status.free;
-			break;
-
-		case selectReadFD:
-				return audio_read_fd;
-			break;
-
-		case selectWriteFD:
-				return audio_write_fd;
-			break;
-
-		case autoDetect:
-				/*
-				 * that the ALSA driver could be compiled doesn't say anything
-				 * about whether it will work (the user might be using an OSS
-				 * kernel driver) so we'll use a value less than the OSS one
-				 * here, because OSS will most certainly work (ALSA's OSS emu)
-				 */
-				return 5;
-			break;
-
-		default:
-				return param(p);
-			break;
-	}
-}
-
-int AudioIOALSA::read(void *buffer, int size)
-{
-	int length;
-	do {
-		length = snd_pcm_read(m_pcm_handle, buffer, size);
-	} while (length == -EINTR);
-	if(length == -EPIPE) {
-		snd_pcm_channel_status_t status;
-		(void)memset(&status, 0, sizeof(status));
-		status.channel = SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE;
-		if(snd_pcm_channel_status(m_pcm_handle, &status) < 0) {
-			arts_info("Capture channel status error!");
-			return -1;
-		}
-		else if(status.status == SND_PCM_STATUS_RUNNING) {
-			length = 0;
-		}
-		else if(status.status == SND_PCM_STATUS_OVERRUN) {
-			artsdebug("Overrun at position: %d" ,status.scount);
-			if(snd_pcm_channel_prepare(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE)<0)
-			{
-				arts_info("Overrun: capture prepare error!");
-				return -1;
-			}
-			length = 0;
-		}
-		else {
-			arts_info("Unknown capture error!");
-			return -1;
-		}
-	}
-    else if(length < 0) {
-		arts_info("Capture error: %s", snd_strerror(length));
-		return -1;
-	}
-	return length;
-}
-
-int AudioIOALSA::write(void *buffer, int size)
-{
-	int length;
-	while((length = snd_pcm_write(m_pcm_handle, buffer, size)) != size) {
-	if (length == -EINTR)
-		continue; // Try again
-        snd_pcm_channel_status_t status;
-        (void)memset(&status, 0, sizeof(status));
-        status.channel = SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK;
-
-        if(snd_pcm_channel_status(m_pcm_handle, &status) < 0) {
-        	arts_warning("Playback channel status error!");
-        	return -1;
-        }
-		else if(status.status == SND_PCM_STATUS_UNDERRUN) {
-        	artsdebug("Underrun at position: %d", status.scount);
-          	if(snd_pcm_channel_prepare(m_pcm_handle, SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK)
-														< 0) {
-            	arts_warning("Underrun: playback prepare error!");
-            	return -1;
-          	}
-        }
-        else {
-        	arts_warning("Unknown playback error!");
-        	return -1;
-        }
-    }
-	return size;
-}
-
-int AudioIOALSA::setPcmParams(const int channel)
-{
-	int &_samplingRate = param(samplingRate);
-	int &_channels = param(channels);
-	int &_fragmentSize = param(fragmentSize);
-	int &_fragmentCount = param(fragmentCount);
-
-	(void)memset(&m_cformat, 0, sizeof(m_cformat));
-	m_cformat.interleave = 1;
-	m_cformat.format = m_format;
-	m_cformat.rate = _samplingRate;
-	m_cformat.voices = _channels;
-
-	(void)memset(&m_params, 0, sizeof(m_params));
-	switch(m_bufferMode){
-		case stream:
-				m_params.mode=SND_PCM_MODE_STREAM;
-			break;
-		case block:
-				m_params.mode=SND_PCM_MODE_BLOCK;
-			break;
-	}
-	m_params.channel=channel;
-	(void)memcpy(&m_params.format, &m_cformat, sizeof(m_cformat));
-	if(channel==SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE){
-		m_params.start_mode=SND_PCM_START_GO;
-		m_params.stop_mode=SND_PCM_STOP_ROLLOVER;
-	}
-	else{	//SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK
-		m_params.start_mode= (m_bufferMode==block) ? SND_PCM_START_FULL : SND_PCM_START_DATA;
-		m_params.stop_mode=SND_PCM_STOP_ROLLOVER;	// SND_PCM_STOP_STOP
-		//use this ^^^ if you want to track underruns
-	}
-
-	switch(m_bufferMode){
-		case stream:
-			m_params.buf.stream.queue_size=1024*1024; //_fragmentSize*_fragmentCount;
-			m_params.buf.stream.fill=SND_PCM_FILL_SILENCE_WHOLE;
-			m_params.buf.stream.max_fill=1024;
-		break;
-		case block:
-			m_params.buf.block.frag_size=_fragmentSize;
-			if(channel==SND_PCM_CHANNEL_CAPTURE){
-				m_params.buf.block.frags_max=1;
-				m_params.buf.block.frags_min=1;
-			}
-			else{	//SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK
-				m_params.buf.block.frags_max=_fragmentCount+1;
-				m_params.buf.block.frags_min=1;
-			}
-	}
-	if(snd_pcm_channel_params(m_pcm_handle, &m_params)<0){
-		paramStr(lastError) = "Unable to set channel params!";
-		return 1;
-	}
-	else {
-		return 0;
-	}
-}
-
-void AudioIOALSA::checkCapabilities()
-{
-	snd_pcm_info_t info;
-	(void)memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
-	if(!snd_pcm_info(m_pcm_handle, &info)) {
-		string flags = "";
-		if(info.flags & SND_PCM_INFO_PLAYBACK) flags += "playback ";
-		if(info.flags & SND_PCM_INFO_CAPTURE) flags += "capture ";
-		if(info.flags & SND_PCM_INFO_DUPLEX) flags += "duplex ";
-		if(info.flags & SND_PCM_INFO_DUPLEX_RATE) flags += "duplex_rate ";
-		artsdebug(" type:%d id:%s\n"
-							" flags:%s\n"
-							" playback_subdevices:%d capture_subdevices:%d",
-							info.type, info.id,
-							flags.c_str(),
-							info.playback+1, info.capture+1);
-	}
-	else {
-		arts_warning("Can't get device info!"); //not fatal error
-	}
-	
-	(void)memset(&m_cinfo, 0, sizeof(m_cinfo));
-	m_cinfo.channel = SND_PCM_CHANNEL_PLAYBACK;
-	if(!snd_pcm_channel_info(m_pcm_handle, &m_cinfo)) {
-		string flags = "";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_MMAP) flags += "mmap ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_STREAM) flags += "stream ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_BLOCK) flags += "block ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_BATCH) flags += "batch ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_INTERLEAVE) flags += "interleave ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_NONINTERLEAVE) flags += "noninterleave ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER) flags += "block_transfer ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_OVERRANGE) flags += "overrange ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_MMAP_VALID) flags += "mmap_valid ";
-		if(m_cinfo.flags & SND_PCM_CHNINFO_PAUSE) flags += "pause ";
-	
-		artsdebug(" subdevice:%d\n"
-				  "  flags:%s\n"
-				  "  min_rate:%d max_rate:%d\n"
-				  "  buffer_size:%d min_fragment_size:%d max_fragment_size:%d\n"
-				  "  fragment_align:%d fifo_size:%d transfer_block_size:%d\n"
-				  "  mmap_size:%d",
-				  m_cinfo.subdevice,
-				  flags.c_str(),
-				  m_cinfo.min_rate, m_cinfo.max_rate,
-				  m_cinfo.buffer_size, m_cinfo.min_fragment_size, m_cinfo.max_fragment_size,
-				  m_cinfo.fragment_align, m_cinfo.fifo_size, m_cinfo.transfer_block_size,
-				  m_cinfo.mmap_size);
-	}
-	else {
-		arts_warning("Can't get channel info!"); //not fatal error
-	}
-}
-
-#endif /* HAVE_LIBASOUND */