Arnold Krille wrote: > >On the second tab of this dialog you will find a drop-down-box asking you >which Audio Device to use. It should show Autodetect by default, change it to >"Network Audio System". > > > >>Now aRts seems to run fine, and Amarok plays music. The problem is that >>if I run my QT program (that uses NAS), while Amarok is playing, then I >>hear no sound until I close Amarok. Only when Amarok closes I hear the >>sound that was probably queued while Amarok was playing. This is already >>fine for me on a practical level, although not a perfect soultion in >>general. >> >> > >Thats because aRts autosuspends and releases /dev/dsp if not active. > > Thanks for the help, you were on the spot. When I changed the audio device to "Network Audio System" everything started working together!, the caveat is that there is a noticeable audio latency (very noticeable :-) while playing music with Amarok. I don't know if this is a bug in my machine or normal latency in this configuration. >>for dmix see http://www.alsa-project.org/ >>It cannot fix the "different soundservers" problem but it fixes the problem of >>a sounddevice which can be opened only from one application at a time... So >>it fixes more than your problem as it also allows xmms, zinf, realone and >>many others to access the soundcard while your favourite soundserver(s) is >>running... >> This is what I was looking for. Looks like a much cleaner solution. I will investigate some more on it :-). Thanks for the insightful comments.
