Hey Janina, I suggest the same as Giso. If you are learning music, you might want to use other audio apps at the same time anyway. So go for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. I've used it ever since I started with Linux. I don't have an RME, but I have a multichannel audio interface. I hope this is a viable solution for you setup. Ta-ta, Ffanci Janina Sajka, Sep 17 2014:
Hi, I've recently gotten my RME Multiface up and working quite satisfactorally with current Linux kernels. I'm very happy, especially as I had a long run of it not working for some reason I never teased out. So, I find I can aplay and arecord, and I can use ecasound, and a few other cli tools. But, I can't use mplayer. Am I the only one? Anyone else tried mplayer on the Multiface? For cli tools mplayer gives me the ability to pause, or move backwards and forwards through the audio file. This is important to me because I learn music these days by ear. I know one can do this in the gui, but as a blind user the Linux gui audio apps aren't particularly friendly in my experience. Besides, it's so terribly simple, if rather imprecise, to use spacebar, left-arrow, and right-arrow. The error I get: Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1536.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 192000->192000) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:327:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-16): Device or resource busy [AO_ALSA] Unable to set hw-parameters: Device or resource busy Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=plughw=8.0' Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file) Meanwhile, aplay and ecaplay have no problems. So, I thought I should ask if anyone else has experienced this before reporting to mplayer devs. TIA Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
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