Bug#373277: Rhythmbox no longer releases audio device when paused

[Sven Arvidsson]

Martin Schwenke wrote:
>   NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup
>   dmix. Dmix is enabled as default for soundcards which don't support
>   hw mixing.
> 
> and a whole bunch of time to check things out, it appears the answer
> is "yes".  It seems I don't have a choice.
> 
> Before this I didn't even know what dmix was.  I still don't care
> though - I just want my system to behave sensibly!
> 
> [So, now my rant is no longer directed at you as Debian maintainer of
>  rhythmbox...  :-]

Hi,

I assume this issue isn't specific to Rhythmbox then? Maybe it would
be better to reassign it to one of the alsa packages, perhaps alsa-base?

(By the way, I'm not a maintainer, I just help out with some of the
bug reports :) )

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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