May have solved the "Device in use" error! Turns out that configuring any 
audio service manually to use alsa and specifying the alsa device, e.g., 
"hw:1,0" will LOCK the audio device for use by any other audio 
service/application. Thus I cannot configure squeezelite to use 
"front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0", which is HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog - Front 
speakers, and also attempt to configure Clementine in its configuration 
file to use alsasink and device="hw:1,0" -- Clementine will throw that 
"Device in use" error if I start squeezelite first. If I start Clementine 
first, then I cannot start squeezelite and it throws the same error (which 
was the clue that led me to figuring this issue out). This also affects the 
other audio application I use, fluidsynth. This is probably why pulseaudio 
was developed (??). Because I can configure squeezelite to use 
"front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0" (to use alsa) and Clementine and fluidsynth to use 
pulseaudio and all will start. Except both Clementine and fluidsynth have 
hiccups :-/ Which points to pulseaudio as the probably culprit. But I'm 
exhausted in this continuing saga.

Like I said, I know this is hard, but goddam -- This is 2017 for pete's 
sake.

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