Hi, I start mpd and aucat with default settings using rc scripts. aucat thus runs as user _sndio and mpd runs as _mpd. Access to sndio between mpd and programs running as a different user are mutually exclusive, so when mpd is playing music nothing else can access the sound device. According to the aucat(1) manpage: "[...] the server can be started by the super-user, [...] but for privacy reasons only one user may have connections to it at a given time." I was wondering if this is intended behaviour because aucat here does not run as root but as _sndio.
Best regards, Jona -- Worse is better Richard P. Gabriel