> And this is wrong. However, the strace from the previous email did not > find any custom ALSA configuration files that could affect the outcome. > Thus, I conclude that you, or maybe some stupid script that you ran, > modified some file in /usr/share/alsa in a bad way in the past. Please > reinstall alsa-lib (which may be known as libasound2 in some > Debian-based distributions). Alexander, you was right all time. I edited that file a year ago and I completely forgot about it. I was also confused by the fact that mpd was inmune to this user induced bug. Sorry about the noise and thank you for all the help.
