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kete

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Registered: 2015-01-01

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[SOLVED] Can't play sound after using 2 sound applications

After using LMMS, I can't hear sound in VLC, so I installed pulseaudio and pulseaudio-alsa.
I changed the libao conf as explained on the wiki, and I change the VLC setting to pulseaudio.
I manually started pulseaudio, but still no sound, I rebooted.
Now, speaker-test is denied.

Last edited by kete (2015-05-21 08:12:05)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play sound after using 2 sound applications

Output of

# fuser -v /dev/snd/*

should shed some light, also some more information would be nice like

aplay -l
amixer -L

kete

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Registered: 2015-01-01

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play sound after using 2 sound applications

Thanks, by the way, before I installed Pulseaudio, VLC was saying, "The audio
device "default" could not be used: Permission denied."

~ $ sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  root        237 F.... fluidsynth
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   root        237 F...m fluidsynth
/dev/snd/seq:        root        237 f.... fluidsynth
/dev/snd/timer:      root        237 f.... fluidsynth

So I finally changed the Fluidsynth config to use Pulseaudio, and VLC
worked.

Last edited by kete (2015-05-21 08:11:41)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play sound after using 2 sound applications

yeah, you may have to create and use an user service if you need fluidsynth, at least it never worked for me when used as a system wide service with pulseaudio (and technically it shouldn't work, so there's that)

kete

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Registered: 2015-01-01

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play sound after using 2 sound applications

I think there's already a fluidsynth service. I restarted it with systemctl.