On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Buzzer 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

why are you using '-s'?

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> > 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.

step 1:
$ aucat -l

and actually, that's it, for basic usage.

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> It would be good idea to make
> suitable issue in the FAQ.

yeah, aucat server should probably be mentioned in faq13 somewhere.

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