[SOLVED] MPD and Mplayer don't play nice

At the moment, I have to kill the MPD process in order to get MPlayer to play sound, otherwise a 'resource is busy' type message comes up.
I'm using alsa and using self compiled Mplayer (from svn).
Any suggestions?
Last edited by dyscoria (2008-03-03 16:28:34)

oliwer wrote:
I had the same problem
In /etc/mpd.conf, go to the "audio_output" section and comment the lines "device" and "format" (thoses lines are marked as optionnal).
Now restart mpd, and it will work as any other alsa application.
Ah worked like a charm! Thanks bud
*MPD wiki edited*

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Last edited by shak (2010-06-10 11:27:13)

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