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Old 05-30-2005, 10:49 AM   #1
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mpd (Music Player) and GAIM sound together.


I'm currently running mpd so I can play music while I work... Problem is when it's running my GAIM client doesn't have any sound. (at least till I hit the stop button) Does anyone know how I can configure these two apps so they both can send sound?

Thanks,
Michael
 
Old 05-30-2005, 01:11 PM   #2
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you need to both make them use decent sound outputs. try either arts for kde, or esd for gnome. the best solution would actually be to configure alsa, which lies underneath esd and arts to directly accept multiple connections via the dmix plugin, but that's a little more complicated (but not much)
 
Old 05-30-2005, 01:23 PM   #3
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Managed to solve my own problem looking at another post on linuxquestions.org.

The big problem I had is gaim runs as one user and mpd runs as another. I needed to modify the following file:

File: /etc/asound.conf
Code:
    pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmixer"
    }
    pcm.dmixer  {
        type dmix
        ipc_key 1024
        ipc_perm 0666
        slave {
            pcm "hw:0,0"
            period_time 0
            period_size 1024
            buffer_size 4096
            rate 44100
        }
        bindings {
            0 0
            1 1
        }
    }
    ctl.dmixer {
        type hw
        card 0
    }
 
Old 05-30-2005, 01:37 PM   #4
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cool, i never know wether "modern" distro's set up alsa nicely or not, they never used to... good to know it should be a safe bet now.
 
  


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