On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 22:45 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is > the > user > that's > supposed > to > be > able > to > use > mpd > in > the > audio > group? > > If > not, > it > may > help > to > add > the > user > to > audio. > > Earlier I couldn't get pulseaudio to stop blocking my audio for vlc and > mplayer until I fixed this group membership problem. The link in the original mail does provide a link that says: "Don’t add your user to the “audio” group" - http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/ Regards, Ralf