I can play more than one audio app at the same time using my Ensoniq card (ens1371 driver). For example I can start Opera as "aoss opera", and access http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. This site uses the bbc radioplayer, which uses realplayer, an OSS app. I hjave no problems with this, and can also play at the same time a .ogg file on MhWaveedit. What I am trying to do is to get a desktop launcher for a music app to play a .wav file, and also start the music app. I have setup a shellscript for both the .wav file, and the music app, and as long as no other audio app is running this works ok. I was using "play" , which uses sox to play the .wav, and as long as no other audio app is running the .wav plays, and the audio app opens. If another audio app is running, MhWaveedit, or the Internet radio, when clicking on the launcher for the audio app that also starts with the .wav, the .wav ends up in a queue, and nothing happens until I stop the currently running audio app. I thought this might have been a problem with "play", so tried "aplay" with the following. aplay -D hwplug:0 Jw_120_G_Cuban2.wav There are the same problems here. With another audio app running the above is queued, but as soon as I close the currently running audio app the .wav plays, and the audio app opens. hwplug is limited to 0 with aplay. I tried hwplug:1, and 2, but they couldn't be found. Any suggestions for a workaround with this problem? This is on the ancient FC2, using kernel. [djmons@localhost djmons]$ uname -r 2.6.5-1.358 and kernel. djmons@localhost djmons]$ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4rc2 (Tue Mar 30 08:19:30 2004 UTC). Compiled on May 8 2004 for kernel 2.6.5-1.358. [djmons@localhost djmons]$ I know the Alsa version is ancient, but is there anyway to get my desktop launcher to play a .wav file while another audio app is running? Nigel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
