amarok can't play a sound simulateously with another application

[Karel Kozlik]

Binary package hint: amarok

If amarok play some music I can't hear no sound from another application (vlc, mozilla-flash-plugin, kopete, etc..)

And vice-versa if I start another application using audio device (vlc, mozilla-flash-plugin) and then start amarok, I can't hear anything from it.

Other applications can make a sound simulateously with no problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: amarok 2:2.3.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 5 09:49:32 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: amarok

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Yup. I can confirm this. It's irritating.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Should be fixed in new installs of 10.10 and 11.04.

Bascially one application can block a sound device, so that no other devices can access it anymore. This is resolved by all of Kubuntu using PulseAudio, a central sound server.