On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:18 AM, <shweg...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > while I see there is some talking about aucat, I'd like to pose a question > myself. > If I use aucat -l and then play multiple sessions of, say, mplayer, > everything is fine, but if I start mpd while running aucat as server, mpd > refuses to start. > Is it possible to make mpd use aucat? Or should I use mpd to do the "aucat > -l" job? (to be able to hear, for instance, incoming messages from pidgin).
aucat locks /dev/audio while it's running, and a new sound API, sndio, is used to intelligently detect whether aucat is running or not and route audio to it or to the soundcard directly. The (huge) downside of this is that there is no drop-in solution that lets you have audio shared between any and all apps, each one must be hacked to support sndio as a backend, and mpd hasn't had this work done yet as far as I know.
