People, Years ago when I needed to simplify things to solve audio hardware problems, I had to remove PA - and for every new version ever since I have automatically uninstalled it to continue to keep things as simple as possible - which generally works well for me. Mostly I play audio and video stuff from the CLI with mplayer but on odd occasions, like when I want to listen to a long audio book, it is more convenient to use QuodLibet which remembers where I am up to on the MP3. However I have found that if I forget to exit QL, then mplayer does not work . . I guess there is no solution to having multiple players open at the same time - but not playing at the same time - and being able to switch between them without reinstalling PA? I also quite frequently have problems with audio on Chrome but because I can't reliably reproduce the problem - in order I do: - refresh tab - exit and restart Chrome - reboot in order to get audio going again on Chrome - I am presuming this is a Chrome issue more than an ALSA issue . . Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user