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Ralphy,

I've been trying for the past four days to register and post at 
forums.slimdevices.com without sucess.

Anyway, I'm seeing an issue with squeezeslave 1.0.210 (and v0.9) where, once 
invoked (on a x86_64 Fedora 12 platform using ALSA), squeezeslave blocks other 
applications from playing audio. 

A description of the issue can be found on the mythtv-users list (posted by 
Gabe Rubin):

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/460472

A quick strace of the squeezeslave executable suggests that whilst waiting to 
play audio, squeezeslave keeps a filehandle on a /dev/snd/pcmXXXX device open. 
All other open()'s are close()'d in short order, just this one remains open.

Could this offer an explanation as to why squeezeslave is blocking audio output 
from other apps (MythTV in my and Gabe's case)? It's beyond my somewhat meagre 
s/w knowledge to track this open() down to a specific line in the source, but I 
thought I'd pass on what I'd found to-date.

I'm currently having to invoke squeezeslave on-demand and close it before using 
MythTV. Consequently, I'd love to have solution that would enable me to 
daemonize squeezeslave on startup and not have to worry about it after that.

I look forward to hearing back from you,

Mike
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