On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:33:45 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price <deb...@rogerprice.org> wrote:
> For nearly 20 years, I have had a cron job in which a dog (yes, it's Biff) > barks > the hours. The lines in /etc/crontab are > > 0 0,12 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 12 > ... > 0 11,23 * * * rprice /mnt/home/rprice/bark/bark.sh 11 > > In the bark.sh script, the sound is produced by sox command > > /usr/bin/play -q hour12.au > > I have now migrated to Debian stretch but would still like to hear Biff > barking > the hours. The cron job works well as long as VLC is not running. But while > VLC runs, the cron job waits. When VLC has finished, I hear the barking. Is > there some way of having the barking while VLC plays? > > I can see nothing in VLC configuration file ~rprice/.config/vlc/vlcrc which > prevents others from accessing the sound card at the same time. Is sound mixing generally working on your machine? Try, e.g., the dmix test from here: https://alsa.opensrc.org/DmixPlugin Celejar
