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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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[SOLVED] MPD and Mplayer don't play nice

At the moment, I have to kill the MPD process in order to get MPlayer to play sound, otherwise a 'resource is busy' type message comes up.
I'm using alsa and using self compiled Mplayer (from svn).

Any suggestions?

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-03-03 16:28:34)

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test1000

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Re: [SOLVED] MPD and Mplayer don't play nice

yeah this is very strange, to have a problem like this in 2008... anyway you fix it by editing ~/.asoundrc and no, i can't remember how.. edit: maybe this entry on alsa will help: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/All … nd_at_once

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Rasi

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Re: [SOLVED] MPD and Mplayer don't play nice

*flamemode on*
i know an even nicer fix for this:

pacman -R alsa-lib && pacman -A oss4 (from aur)
*flamemode off*

Last edited by Rasi (2008-03-03 14:56:39)

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED] MPD and Mplayer don't play nice

Are you sure that you need to kill mpd?  Isn't it enough if music is stopped (stopped, not paused)?  If the problem occurs if music is properly stopped then I think something is wrong with the svn version of mpd; otherwise it means that there is something wrong with alsa dmix setup.

oliwer

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Re: [SOLVED] MPD and Mplayer don't play nice

I had the same problem

In /etc/mpd.conf, go to the "audio_output" section and comment the lines "device" and "format" (thoses lines are marked as optionnal).

Now restart mpd, and it will work as any other alsa application.

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dyscoria

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Re: [SOLVED] MPD and Mplayer don't play nice

I had the same problem

In /etc/mpd.conf, go to the "audio_output" section and comment the lines "device" and "format" (thoses lines are marked as optionnal).

Now restart mpd, and it will work as any other alsa application.

Ah worked like a charm! Thanks bud

*MPD wiki edited*

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