hey,
I use debian testing with xfce.
suddenly my rhythmbox stopped playing when flash-video was running on iceweasel before and the same the other way round.

ive tried many things. since i heared that rythmbox uses gstreamer, i used gstreamer-properties to set the default output plugin to alsa (pipeline: alsasink). test works, but rhythmbox does not.

when i try esd, pulseaudio or autodetect as plugin, it just works when iceweasel is closed. when iceweasel is closed, alsa just works when i waited some time after selecting, which sounds pretty strange to me.

to me it seems that rhythmbox always uses alsa, cuz when gstreamer-properties set the default output plugin to esd and i start rhythmbox, esd still works but alsa says "..alsa..is beeing used"
gstreamer output at that time:
"gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture': Could not open audio device for playback. Device is being used by another application. [gstalsasink.c(685): gst_alsasink_open (): /GstPipelineipeline1/GstAlsaSink:alsasink2:
Device 'default' is busy]"

in that moment i can play music with exaile and gstreamer settings (which is esd as i said).

all this sound deamon stuff etc. confuses me pretty much, so if someone could just explain how to set up esd or alsa or something right so that it works with multiple applications?

thanks
compul

NO trouble here playing shell-fm and flash sound. I do not use esd, pulseaudio, or gstreamer.
My suggestion would be to get rid of pulse and even esd if you can, then make sure you have gstreamer0.10-alsa - GStreamer plugin for ALSA, installed.

hey this really solved the problem
thanks !

but you should install several gstreamer plugins and e.g. gstreamerx.xx-ffmpeg for mp3 and wma support in rhythmbox.

lg,
compul