[mythtv-users] Squeezesoft prevents audio in .24

Gabe Rubin gaberubin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 04:03:12 UTC 2010


Hi list,

I currently run squeezesoft and squeezeslave (.9-133) on my mythbox to
play music (I prefer it to mythmusic).  However, since upgrading to
.24, squeezeslave is preventing myth from being able to play audio.

When I have squeezeslave running on my mythbox and start up
mythfrontend, I get this error in the console:
2010-11-16 19:59:28.079 ALSA, Error:
snd_pcm_open("iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy
2010-11-16 19:59:28.080 Audio device ALSA:iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0 isn't
usable Check audio configuration

When I try to play a recording, I get this error:
2010-11-16 20:00:11.414 ALSA, Error:
snd_pcm_open("iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0"): Device or resource busy
2010-11-16 20:00:11.414 AO: Opening audio device
'iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0' ch 2(2) sr 48000 sf signed 16 bit reenc 0
2010-11-16 20:00:11.414 Opening ALSA audio device 'iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0'.
2010-11-16 20:00:11.415 ALSA, Error:
snd_pcm_open(iec958:CARD=SB,DEV=0): Device or resource busy
2010-11-16 20:00:11.415 AudioOutput Error: Aborting reconfigure
2010-11-16 20:00:11.415 AudioPlayer: Disabling Audio, reason is:
Aborting reconfigure

As soon as kill squeezeslave, I can play audio and don't get these
errors, so I know it is a squeezeslave issue.  I was able to let
squeezeplay run at all times on earlier versions (although, there
would obviously be issues when I was playing audio with both
squeezeplay and myth at the same time) and I would like to be able to
do this again.  I could bind a key on my remote to start and stop
squeeze, but my preference is to just leave it running.

Any ideas?


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