Comment 6 for bug 239757

In Ubuntu 8.04, I have System/Preferences/Sound -- notice the slashmarks, the way everyone in the known universe signifies menu paths -- and there is no 'sounds', and under 'sound' there is no "audio and video" only Devices, of which the Sound Events says autodetect; I don't think this is at all the right place, it appears to deal with sound icons in the desktop.

as stated before, I am using alsa and all other apps, including but not restricted to Flash 9, work fine. but the use of any other alsa app is blocked by Rhythmbox, and if they are in use when Rhythmbox is invoked, the program hangs on the playback switch, needing a kill signal to stop it. Audacious, on the other hand. works flawlessly, even with Flash-9 videos running; this was the same with Rhythmbox until only very very recently, which is why I suspected that some recent update, whether of rhythmbox or of Ubuntu in general, has broken it. It is suspicious that only Rhythmbox is affected, but to be fair, I have not exhaustively tried every possible combination on ever sound app available with Ubuntu, I have only tried mplayer, firefox/flash-9, audacious, mpg321, timidity and fluidsynth, and all of these work fine with each other, but none of these will share the audio system with Rhythmbox.