Hi there, I need to setup a server that permanently plays audio by mpd thru pulseaudio. With or without X/gnome started. Means pulseaudio and mpd should start before the graphical part. There will be only one unique user on this box. using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, pulseaudio daemon starts thanks to the auto-spawn feature, when a gnome user logs in - the issue is, if I start mpd (or any software that use pulseaudio) before gnome, it'll spawn a pulseaudio daemon that belongs to the mpd user. So I get two pulseaudio instances: one which belongs to mpd, the other to my unique system user... But here I need my system user to "supervise" volumes and pulseaudio properties for the whole system ! if I delay mpd startup (by modifying init.d script....), all's going well - as it connects to the existing pulseaudio instance. But I don't feel good about that "strap". In a common usage you won't really notice what I describe here, but as I am running this ubuntu from a USB stick, there is a period of time before gnome starts where any program that use pulseaudio will start its own instance. Of course the solution that comes in mind is System Mode. Not good. Second: delays => not good So... What is the best pratice to do that ? Is running mpd as the user which runs the gnome session is a working /or good solution ? Thanks !!
