[mythtv-users] Alternatives to MythMusic in 0.25, has anyone already found one?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 18 April 2012 10:01, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only gotcha with squeezeslave is that if you use ALSA, don't use
> pulse, then squeezeslave will take over the audio output even when no
> music is being played so you can't use myth (at least the audio
> portion) until you kill squeezeslave.  I have a button on my remote
> that triggers an irexec event to execute a script that calls up
> squeezeslave.  I have my lirc file configured so that whenever I hit
> stop, squeezeslave is killed (regardless of if squeezeslave is running
> or not -- not the most elegant script but it works).

This is quite easy to get around.
You could use pulse and the pulse's ALSA emulation (ALSA:pulse in mythtv)

Or set a dmix device like so:
~/.asoundrc:
pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcm "dmix:1,3"
}

where that's for card 1 , device 3

Can now have multiple devices using the alsa port