Freezing with Sound

["Aldous B Bernardo" <aldous@edsamail.com.ph>]

     I recently installed ALSA (0.5.12) on my Potato. When I play something with freeamp or xmms my desktop freezes. The funny thing is that I notice freeamp or xmms still functions well, there is still sound but all the other parts of my desktop including the panel, the launchers, and menu freezes. If I stop freeamp or xmms, then all the  icons that I clicked will execute. I tried  monitoring it on gtop but it seems that cpu usage is about 10% or less only. 
     Another thing... where do you place the skins in xmms? what directory? I have several skins for winamp and I want to use it in xmms but I dont know where to place it.

Aldous