Hello,

My problem is that when I'm playing mp3s in XMMS I can not hear any of the incoming/outgoing IM soudns in AIM. Is there any way you can get them both to work like in Windows when you play in winamp but AIM sounds still work. The big issue is that after the song is finished in XMMS, gAIM then sends out the incoming/outgoing sounds its been trying to while a song was playing. So basically I end up hearing like 1000 IM sounds after a song. Then when these IM sounds are playing XMMS can not play the next song in the playlist saying the sound device is in use. Does anyone have any bright ideas? This is really frustrating!!!

Thanks in advance.

You need to make sure that you have the xmms alsa plugin and configure your apps to use alsa instead of oss.

The output plugin in XMMS is already set to ALSA.

Maybe you need to adjust the sound method in the gaim preferences menu. This trial and error, so it may not work.

I can't find any relevent settings in the gAIM menu, this one does come close though:

Sound Method:


Automatic, Console Beep, ESD, Arts, Command


Not sure what those are.... maybe someone has some insight?

Try using the esd sound method in gaim and also in xmms to allow that two apps acess the sound card at the same time ...

I do that with xmms and mplayer and it works perfectly

Set it on ESD, but no change. BTW - Where is the option in XMMS to allow two apps? I checked off "allow multiple instances" but obviously that's not what your talking about, but it was the closest I could find.

Well maybe i mispelled it

You have to change the output plugin in xmms to esd.

Just did that, looks to be working, I'll let you know if any problems occur. BTW, hooked you up with a thanks!