On Sunday 25 March 2007 03:47, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 20:08 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > The problem I have is that "play", or "aplay" will not play the > > soundfile if another audio app is already running > > Well, ogg123 will play sound while another instance of ogg123 is playing > sound. But even if you find some tool, like it, that can do so. You're > still at the mercy of whatever else is already using the sound. If > *that* doesn't share, you're out of luck. A new day, and thinking clearer, I've fixed the problem. It would have helped if I had used the correct plugin with aplay, as below. aplay -D plug:dmix Jw_120_G_Cuban2.wav Now I can start Opera with "aoss opera", and listen to Internet radio using the BBC's radioplayer, which uses the realplayer plugin, plus play a tune with MhWaveedit, and also launch the music app via the shellscript, which plays the .wav, and launches the app. Bingo!! Here is the link to the Alsa page which discusses DmixPlugin. It also gives info on setting up a .asoundrc file, but I havn't needed to do that. http://alsa.opensrc.org/home/w/org/opensrc/alsa/index.php?title=DmixPlugin Soundcard: Ensoniq (ens1371 driver) OS: FC2 (ancient, but IMHO one of the best. FC5's ok too) Kernel: 2.6.10-2.3.legacy_FC2 Alsa version: 1.0.6 (ancient, but works) Thanks for all the suggestions folks. Nigel.
