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For some reason all applications I have that use GStreamer for audio can't access the default sound device as a regular user. The audio works fine when running the same applications as root.
Here is the error when testing with gstreamer-properties:
gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'ALSA — Advanced Linux Sound Architecture': Could not open audio device for playback. [gstalsasink.c(694): gst_alsasink_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstAlsaSink:alsasink1:
Playback open error on device 'default': Permission denied]
I have tried searching for days trying to solve this one without any luck. Any ideas?
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Ok, since I haven't got any replies, I'll try to provide more information to see if it can help to understand the situation better.
Sound will work for me as a regular user with timidity++/rosegarden but GStreamer only seems to work as root. The error seemed to happen around the same time as I was able to get the timidity++ service set up with working audio.
I've tried adding my user to the 'audio' group, but it doesn't seem to change anything. Obviously there's some file/process/device that is not available to my user account, but I can't seem to figure out where that may be.
I guess if I can't figure out how to solve this one, I'll have to completely reinstall the operating system... I really hate having to do that.
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