Cannot play music in xmms

parthbakshi · 01-17-2006, 08:59 AM

Hello
for somedays im able to play mp3 any any other kind of music only in amarok ,i cannot play it any other player xmms doesnt work nor real player ,but amarok works , i tried a lot but could not solve it .When u try to start a new song in real player it says cannot open device Another application may be using it even though no other application is using it.Pls help me out.I use suse linux 10.0

jimvin · 01-17-2006, 09:57 AM

Hi,
What Linux distro are you using? xmms may be configured to use OSS while your system may be using ALSA for sound. Check the configuration settings for xmms, particularly which output plugin you are using.

Regards,
Jim

ayteebee · 01-17-2006, 11:48 AM

Right click on XMMS main window > Options > Preferences. (Or ctrl+p from main window) Play around with the Output Plugin until something works.

Do you have more than one sound card? I seem to remember I had a similar problem when I was trying to use multiple sound systems (onboard sound and PCI card) but I couldn't figure out the problem so I just took the card out.

You probably need to have only one player open at a time in case your sound card cannot support multiple source mixing (or whatever it's called)

parthbakshi · 01-17-2006, 12:46 PM

Hi
I have another problem whenever I try to add songs to xmms playlist none of them get added to it .FEw days back All audio players were working fine .Even real player says cannot open device Another application may be using it even though no other application is using it.
Iam at my wits end

jimvin · 01-18-2006, 04:33 AM

You may have program open that is hogging the sound card. You could try using lsof to identify what has the sound device open.

lsof /dev/dsp0 (or whatever your sound device is called).

Regards,
Jim