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chosen

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Registered: 2012-02-24

Posts: 45

[SOLVED]MPD cant work with others

Hi

I have weird issue, If mpd is on, there is a problem with youtube videos - I cant watch them. This make me to check what is going on, and when I turn mpd off everything works corretly but I cant turn mpd on again without restart, another thing that I cant even play some audio from vlc while mpd is working, when I stopped mpd vlc plays awesome music, but then again mpd cant be turned on and need to be restarted manually.
I guess I messed up some config files.

# An example of an ALSA output:
#
audio_output {
	type		"alsa"
	name		"My ALSA Device"
	device		"hw:0,0"	# optional
	mixer_type      "hardware"	# optional
	mixer_device	"default"	# optional
	mixer_control	"PCM"		# optional
	mixer_index	"0"		# optional
}

I hope I described it enough.
Sorry for a little chaos.

so:
when mpd is on I cant get audio output from anything else

Greetings

Last edited by chosen (2014-02-19 17:59:22)

emeres

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Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 1,570

Re: [SOLVED]MPD cant work with others

You are addressing the hardware directly, therefore it is occupied/busy and not available for other applications. Either delete device line and mpd will try to get configuration itself or define some pcm device (default should work).
Using mixer_type "hardware" will cause volume changes for the device, meaning if you lower mpd volume you will lower systems volume. That is probably not what you want. Use "software" value for software (mpd only) mixing.

Last edited by emeres (2014-02-19 17:14:54)

chosen

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Registered: 2012-02-24

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED]MPD cant work with others

Thanks for reply!
I commented alsa audio ouput, and youtube with mpd together work like a charm ;p
Thanks!

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Re: [SOLVED]MPD cant work with others

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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