On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:54:33PM +0200, Lars Heineken wrote:

> I think the issue is simple. The sound-device can only be opened once. So either 
>xmms or alsaplayer gets it. The Solution you're talking about is using a sound deamon 
>(like esd, or arts) that can handle multiple clients. The only problem might be that 
>the alsaplayer is using nothing but the native alsa-driver, so he's always blocking 
>the sound port, as he can't be run using a sound daemon for output.

There is an esd output plugin available for alsaplayer, just use -o
esound. AlsaPlayer also supports the JACK sound daemon for very low
latency performance. Unfortunately it's one of only 3 apps that support JACK
right now ;-) This should change soon, hopefully...

Regards,
Andy

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