xmms fails occasionally

[Francesco Casadei]

On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:10:53AM -0700, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> dunno why.  it will finish playing a song occasionally, then beep and
> pop up an error message that says it couldn't find the appropriate
> plugin or the device is busy (audio device i assume).  I'm not running
> any other a/v applications to take over the device besides KDE.  what
> might possibly cause this phenomena?
> 
> aaron
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I have the same problem you described if xmms' output plugin is esound instead
of oss. Choose OSS Driver in the 'Audio I/O Plugins' tab in the preferences
window. You may also want to compile xmms without esound (i.e. gnome) support

	Francesco Casadei
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