[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#721573: mpd doesn't release pulseaudio on pause

[Max Kellermann]

On 2013/09/02 02:24, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat at debian.org> wrote:
> Normally, when pulseaudio doesn't play, it releases the audio device, so
> that multiple pulseaudio processes can run in parallel without too much
> problems.
> 
> However, when you pause mpd, it seems to make pulseaudio still keep the
> audio device locked. Fixing that behavior would significantly improve
> pulseaudio support and avoid requiring users to make the special
> configuration detailed in #554156.

When you pause MPD, MPD tells PulseAudio that the stream is "paused".
It is up to PulseAudio to decide what to do with that piece of
information.  Your bug report is bogus, and should be moved to
PulseAudio, because it's none of MPD's business.