there are a couple of models for dealing with lots and lots of standards. there's the tcs/jpg translator model. but i think the upas/fs model might work better for audio. you can present a standard menu of resources and translate on the fly with a fs. might be kind of cool.
Instead of writing translators I'd rather pick a single convention that seems the most suitable and fixup the other implementations and clients to fall in line with those conventions. My biggest question is "is it worth my time?" If I spend time unifying the various implementations, will they be accepted back into the mainline or will it be viewed as unnecessary churn... How much do people even care about the audio drivers and they're interfaces at the present time?
- erik
Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
