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will.price94

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MPD Pulseaudio issues [SOLVED]

Hi,
I've just setup pulseaudio on my system as I was tired of not being able to handle simultaneous output whilst one program had control of the soundcard (using alsa).

I run MPD from startup with the user "mpd", unfortunately when it starts, it starts it's own pulseaudio session which conflicts with that when I launch into X, therefore I can either have sound from mpd (that pulseaudio session uses the soundcard) or other programs launched as me e.g. chromium, rhythmbox, mplayer etc (and my user's pulseaudio session locks the soundcard).

What's the best way to remedy this situation so that I only have one pulseaudio session running? I'm toying with the idea of launching mpd as myself using .xinitrc. Ideally I want to just run one pulseaudio session and leave my mpd configuration as is.

Any thoughts or ideas would be most appreciated.
Thanks.

Last edited by will.price94 (2012-02-14 16:51:19)

firecat53

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Re: MPD Pulseaudio issues [SOLVED]

Unless you have other users, it's much easier to to just run mpd as yourself. I've got that setup with pulseaudio and it works great.

Scott

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will.price94

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Re: MPD Pulseaudio issues [SOLVED]

OK Scott, I'll do that. Thank you for your suggestion. Hopefully it will remedy the issues I'm having.
EDIT: Worked a treat, no more issues!

Last edited by will.price94 (2012-02-14 16:51:05)