mpd conflicts with other software

Ignatius881 · 2012-12-23 19:31:50

Hello.

I don't know if this problem is about my mpd configuration or a bug. When I stop a song and, for example, watch a youtube video, pause it (not closing the window, only pausing the video) and try to start another song from mpd, it's not reproduced until I close the video or another sound source.

This is not a serious problem at all. But it also occurs when I use Steam. And this is really a serious problem, because to listen music from mpd after closing Steam, I have to restart my computer. Otherwise mpd doesn't work.

Is there a way to listen music and use Steam or watch Youtube videos "at the same time"?

graysky · 2012-12-23 19:34:29

Pulse audio? Run all apps as your user rather than allow mpd to run as the mpd user.

ewaller · 2012-12-23 19:37:16

It sounds like your flash player is not set up to play nicely with pulseaudio.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA

Ignatius881 · 2012-12-23 19:58:51

I only have ALSA installed, PulseAudio is not.

ewaller · 2012-12-23 22:09:41

Ignatius881 wrote:

I only have ALSA installed, PulseAudio is not.

That is contributing to the problem; maybe.

At issue is that the audio applications grab the audio system for themselves and don't share them. Pulseaudio allows multiple audio programs to run by providing each of them a virtual audio system. Pulseaudio then combines the multiple sources and sends the combined stream to the real hardware. Alsa can do this without Pulseaudio using dmix. There are a few threads in these forums on doing it that way.

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mpd conflicts with other software

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