Jim Duda wrote: > I'm running pulseaudio 0.9.6. I use aplay to play the output of the > festival voice sythesis program. Many times (once or twice a day), I > find that aplay is running at 100% cpu and appears stuck or spinning. I > have to kill the program in order for more audio to be played. I've > only seen this since I've been using pulseaudio (which I really like). > > Can anyone explain what might be happening? I guess there is a locking issue somewhere... 0.9.6 is quite out of date now. Try 0.9.9. Also you can use paplay as a drop in replacement for aplay with pulseaudio which may crash less for you. Col
