Can't play when choosing Audio Output Plugin Output: ALSA and choosing right sound card

[Pēteris Krišjānis]

1. Open Jokosher, create new project
2. Add Instrument, record it
3. Select Edit => Preferences
4. Change Audio Output Plugin:
Output to ALSA
Device to your default sound card
5. Expected result would be that sound is played
6. In reality, such error message gets produced -
Argh! Something went wrong and a serious error occurred:
Could not open resource for writing.
gstalsasink.c(638): gst_alsasink_open (): /timeline/playbackbin/alsasink1:
Playback open error on device 'value': No such file or directory

[Laszlo Pandy (laszlok)]

If something is using your alsa device, you shouldn't output directly to alsa. You should leave the preferences at autodetect and that will try to use any gnome preferences for a software mixing system like dmix or pulseaudio. I think this is not a bug.

[Laszlo Pandy (laszlok)]

Actually this probably is a bug. It should be selecting device "default" not "value".

[Pēteris Krišjānis (pecisk-gmail)]

I can't reproduce this bug anymore by my own step list, something got fixed or this is really very rare corner case. So I mark this as Invalid.

[Pēteris Krišjānis (pecisk-gmail)]

For future, Jokosher stores it's playback device in Globals.settings.playback, so if it is malformed, then it could fail like this. However, I didn't find such case when it does so.