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Old 12-10-2004, 08:05 PM   #1
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can't play sounds from two programs at once.


For some reason I can't play sounds from two programs at once.

Example, I'm running gaim and xmms. If I run xmms I can't here anything in gaim, then when the music stops, all the sound get played. If I run skype, i can't here anything in xmms or gaim. I dunno why, is this an option? its very annoying.
 
Old 12-10-2004, 09:10 PM   #2
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I think everything is getting qued to the sound card, but doesn't play until others are done.
You should install something like esound
 
Old 12-10-2004, 09:17 PM   #3
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Configure your meda applications to use alsa, coz some of them use oss by default. On my system I can play my mp3's and hear sounds from GAIM e.t.c.
 
Old 12-10-2004, 10:02 PM   #4
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Ok, I changed it to eSound, still can't hear from two at once though.
 
Old 12-10-2004, 10:32 PM   #5
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did you try changin xmms to use alsa as I mentioned in my post above?
 
Old 12-10-2004, 10:51 PM   #6
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I had the same problem with my nvidia soundstorm audio chip on my giga-byte ga-7n400pro motherboard. Here is how i solved this problem. I went to ebay and picked up a cheap sound blaster live pci card. there problem solved.
 
Old 12-10-2004, 11:32 PM   #7
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I think NVidia's onboard sound chips only support OSS in their drivers.
Help?
 
Old 12-11-2004, 10:39 AM   #8
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I use some SiS onboard sound. Also, ALSA didn't help
 
Old 12-11-2004, 10:02 PM   #9
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i had the same problem... what i did was set everything to use esound or ESD.

so for xmms, go to options -> preferences and under Output plugin, choose eSound Output Plugin.
for gaim, tools -> preferences -> Sounds and choose ESD as the Sound Method. (didn't work when it was set to Automatic for me)

while i was at it, i went ahead and set ESD as the Output and Input in the Default Sink and Source for the GStreamer Preferences (Applications -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Multimedia Systems Selector). Still not sure if this part is really required or not, i'm still a myself, but it didn't seem to hurt either.
 
Old 01-15-2005, 08:11 PM   #10
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Yea I did that. ESD sounds like crap though. The sound quality is horrible.
 
Old 01-15-2005, 09:58 PM   #11
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*shrugs*.. sounds perfectly alright for me
 
Old 02-14-2005, 07:15 AM   #12
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set all to aRts not alsa or esd it's fine
 
  


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