Re: Sound Device Not Shared

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

ankur.kumar@axa.com.au wrote:

> I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound
> device (/dev/dsp) and another
> application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use.
> 
> What can I do it share the sound device??

If I understand ALSA correctly, you should not be using /dev/anything.  ALSA
specifies devices differently, e.g. "hw:0,0" for card 0, device 0.  If your
app is wanting to use /dev/dsp, it may not be set up to use ALSA.  Either
configure it to use ALSA instead of OSS, or run the program with an ALSA
wrapper, like aoss (man aoss for help).