Rhythmbox won't release audio

[Mike Frisch]

dsyates wrote:

> Does anyone have a solution to this: If I have Rhythmbox open and
> playing music, then pause it, no other applications can play audio until
> I exit Rhythmbox.

Is nobody else affected by this problem or aren't there many Rhythmbox 
users on this list?

I notice that /usr/bin/rhythmbox links to libesd, but it doesn't appear 
to multiplex the audio.