Hi, I am trying to monitor the sound card on my machines. I have two sound cards, out of which I am able to monitor the on-board sound device successfully, however I am facing "device open" issues while monitoring the USB handset I have. *the output of aplay -l is* **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Device [Generic USB Audio Device], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 *My /etc/asound.conf looks like this, * pcm.pulse_monitor { type pulse device alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor } ctl.pulse_monitor { type pulse device alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor } pcm.pulse_monitor1 { type pulse device alsa_output.usb-0d8c_Generic_USB_Audio_Device-00-Device.analog-stereo.monitor } ctl.pulse_monitor1 { type pulse device alsa_output.usb-0d8c_Generic_USB_Audio_Device-00-Device.analog-stereo.monitor } Now when I play a music on my on-board sound device (HDA Intel), and execute *arecord -Dpulse_monitor -c2 -fS32_LE /dev/null -vvv* I am able to monitor. However, when I monitor and do the following, *arecord -Dpulse_monitor1 -c2 -fS32_LE /dev/null -vvv* * * *&* * * *aplay -Dhw:1 -c1 -fS16_LE song.wav, * the o/p is *aplay: main:660: audio open error: Device or resource busy. * * * Also I have noticed, if I play the song.wav first and then do the monitoring, it still doesn't work, until song.wav is finished. I have tried to do this on multiple machines, with no avail. -- Thank you... *Amar Akshat (????)* *"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20120625/86e88deb/attachment-0001.html>