Fedora Rant #7 - who told KDE Sound to stop me listening?

[Ron Siven]

On Monday 09 April 2007 2:31:44 pm Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 16:31 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > > The log file says
> > > > "aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busy".
> > >
> > > If anything is hogging it, it's likely to be aRts.  In kcontrol > Sound
> > > & Multimedia > Sound System make sure that 'Auto-suspend if idle
> > > after:' is set to 1 second.
> >
> > Great minds think alike - I had done exactly this,
> > without any effect that I could see.
>
> We went through this some time ago and I don't have the original thread.
> But there was  way to edit .asoundrc in your home directory to use
> "dmix". Worked like a charm. I could play many apps all at one and all
> were mixed into one audio stream perfectly. Now an upgrade has wrecked
> that setting, I believe, and I'm looking all over for that email. My
> bad, as I have a pile of email folders where I cache the good stuff. Ric
>

Ric,

Is this the information you're looking for?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Allow_multiple_programs_to_play_sound_at_once

Ron