[linux-audio-user] xmms does not play on multiface

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 21:43 +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 20:48 +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> >   
> >>>>> in my ~/.asoundrc and use `hdsp_analog` as output device in xmms.
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >> please, can you tell me how do you set this?
> >> in my case "options-settings-configure output plugin" only accepts 
> >> something
> >> which begins with  "/", like "/dev..."what ever, but it does not 
> >> accepts  "hdsp_analog"?
> >>     
> >
> > Sounds like XMMS is set to use the OSS output plugin.  You need to
> > configure it to use ALSA.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >   
> no, there is libjackxmms.so working as a output plugin, xmms plays on my 
> usb device or the onboard sound, only it does not plays with multiface.
> if i choose "libalsa.so" as the output plugin, than i get the error 
> message from xmms, that the device is already in use -jack is using it. 
> than i can configure that xmms plays on another device, b.e. usb, and 
> than everything works, so it just want not to use the same device as 
> multiface is using.
> does it makes sense?

You're not going to be able to use XMMS with ALSA output while JACK is
running as the HDSP lacks hardware mixing.  If you're using XMMS with
the JACK output plugin then you can't use devices defined in .asoundrc -
you have to configure XMMS to output to JACK ports.

Lee