Using OSS with more than one application?


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Hey guys! I have Ubuntu 64 8.04, latest updates and everything. I'm using an X-Fi so you have an idea what I'm up against. Basically I have it working, I can listen to music or watch YouTube videos and such, but I can't do both at the same time. If I want to have my music low in the background while I listen to someone talk on YouTube, either the video won't have audio or Audacious won't play my song. It's interesting because for some reason the Alsa plugin that I believe comes with Audacious appears to be missing, but ESD and OSS are still there, amongst several other things. Not sure if that matters.

In any event, does anyone else here have a similar setup? This isn't a major problem but it's still something I'd like to get resolved. It's also noticable when I'm listening to music or watching a YouTube video and I don't hear my IM notification sounds, which is very inconvenient to say the least. :(

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If you start audio in Audacious, then start firefox and browse youtube, does Audacious still play, and firefox have no sound?

It sounds like there is some funky stuff going on. Let's see if this works:

Start playing audio in Audacious.

Open a terminal, and start firefox from the terminal with aoss firefox

See if firefox works on youtube now.

There might be a problem with alsa and oss sound systems conflicting and one locking out the other (or something). Not quite sure about this, but if that works, you might set firefox to use a different sound system, as detailed in this link.

Best of luck!

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I just tried the aoss trick, but to no avail. it asked me to install alsa-oss which I did, but it didn't work. Also about using Alsa as a whole, I tried using that guide as well, but something happened during the install. I can't remember what it was exactly, but something failed along the way that prevented me from doing it that way. It was when I first installed Ubuntu so it was quite a while ago. :(

Nice sig markjensen, Apollo Creed :)

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I don't have a X-fi but Pulse Audio (the Ubuntu sound server) has this bug unless you install a particular package, namely "libflashsupport".

edit: Ok, I didn't read properly. Are you sure you don't accidentally use PulseAudio? This bug suits it perfectly.

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