[mythtv-users] Alternatives to MythMusic in 0.25, has anyone already found one?

[Gabe Rubin]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 April 2012 10:01, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The only gotcha with squeezeslave is that if you use ALSA, don't use
>> pulse, then squeezeslave will take over the audio output even when no
>> music is being played so you can't use myth (at least the audio
>> portion) until you kill squeezeslave.  I have a button on my remote
>> that triggers an irexec event to execute a script that calls up
>> squeezeslave.  I have my lirc file configured so that whenever I hit
>> stop, squeezeslave is killed (regardless of if squeezeslave is running
>> or not -- not the most elegant script but it works).
>
> This is quite easy to get around.
> You could use pulse and the pulse's ALSA emulation (ALSA:pulse in mythtv)
>
> Or set a dmix device like so:
> ~/.asoundrc:
> pcm.!default {
>   type plug
>   slave.pcm "dmix:1,3"
> }
>
> where that's for card 1 , device 3
>
> Can now have multiple devices using the alsa port

I seem to recall you telling me that if I use Pulse than I can't do
passthrough and the audio will be altered from the original.  Does the
ALSA emulation fix this or was I mistaken from the get go?