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Bug 470342 - Banshee steals sound device when paused
Banshee steals sound device when paused
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.13.1
Other All
: Normal minor
: 0.98.3
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
: 472736 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-26 03:20 UTC by Michael Mathers
Modified: 2008-04-10 11:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Michael Mathers 2007-08-26 03:20:11 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Since there is no 'Stop' playback button (only a 'Pause' button) I would think pressing pause should release /dev/snd/timer and /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p.  This way I don't have to close the application completely if another program needs to use the sound device (e.g. VMWare)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Banshee
2. Begin Playback of a Song
3. Pause Playback of that Song (for lack of a stop button)
4. Try to use another application which needs sound in a non-gnome friendly way (by that I mean, if you ran this application while running gnome, other gnome applications would lose the ability to play sound, e.g. firefox could still use sound)


Actual results:
The sound for the other application, (e.g. VMWare) cannot access the /dev/dsp device.

Expected results:
The sound should be available to any application, gnome sound-system friendly or not

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Aaron Bockover 2007-08-26 21:22:52 UTC 
This is not a Banshee bug. Banshee simply uses the gconfaudiosink in GStreamer to which it pipes sound. The actual audio sink used is determined in the rest of GNOME. I.e. run gstreamer-properties.
Comment 2 Michael Mathers 2007-11-22 15:22:49 UTC 
This is still a bug.  Totem movie player uses the same gstreamer backend (i assume); other programs can use the sound device when totem is playing music.  Banshee does not have the same capability.  It hogs the sound device for itself.
Comment 3 Andrew Conkling 2008-02-16 04:26:02 UTC 
*** Bug 472736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Gabriel Burt 2008-04-10 11:15:37 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.