On 2009-10-02, Buzzer <4625khz@gmail.com> wrote:
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> pO DANNYM RADIOPEREHWATA OT  2-Oct-2009 07:18, Paul de Weerd
> BYL ZAME^EN W \FIRE, NA ^ASTOTE misc, S TAKIM SOOB]ENIEM:
>
>> | > > I need to play a few audio files simultaneously.
>> | >
>> | > > can't open /dev/audio: Device busy.
>> | >
>> | > man 1 aucat
>> |
>> | Could you be more verbose? What make you think that I did not read man
>> | aucat?
>> 
>> tried aucat. Mine seems to be misfunctioning too, can you share with
>> the list what problems you had with aucat in servermode ? Did it give
>> any errormessages ?
>
> I ran aucat with '-l' key, then I try to play wav file with 'aucat
> file.wav' command or 'aucat -s deafault file.wav'.
>
> aucat -s default send.wav
> aucat: can't open /dev/audio: Device busy
> aucat: send.wav: could not play
>
>> You know, if you assume we can read your mind, we're going to make
>> some assumptions of our own...
>
> I'm waiting for step by step advices. It would be good idea to make
> suitable issue in the FAQ.

You don't learn anything from step by step advices. Step by step advices
create stupid users. You just have to read through the fine
documentation.
/dev/audio can only be opened by one application at a time, in your case
you want aucat to open it so that it can multiplex stuff for you.
If aucat says "Device busy" then that means that another application is
currently using the audio device, kill that application. After you did
that you just have to run "aucat -l" and you're good to go, play your
music in mplayer, vlc, totem, whatever, you will be fine.


Best regards,
Jona

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