How do you stop OSS, Artsd, Gnome sound etc from Jumping all over each other?

[james mcdonald]

Jerry McBride wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:05:34 +1100 James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>
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>>I have a mdk 9.0 box... sometimes when I use xmms I get the following
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>>    ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): 
>>Resource temporarily unavailable
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>>It looks as though it's due to another sound server monopolizing /dev/dsp...
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>>How do you get them all to play happily or at least exit properly when 
>>they are done and not keep a lock on /dev/dsp?
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>Screw Gnome... as for OSS, well... run artsd as your base sound server. It works
>very well. The wrap all your apps that require OSS in the arts wrapper; artsdsp.
>What artsdsp does is takes OSS calls and runs them seamlessly through artsd...
>Very elegant.
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>For instance, if you want to run mpg123 to listen to a couple of *.mp3's... jst
>do; artsdsp mpg123 -Z some.mp3's and mpg123 will play it's audio via the artsd
>daemon.
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Thanks I knew the answer had to be something I hadn't seen before... now 
the task is to get all the disparate system apps that use each different 
system to call artsdsp...

I am getting to the stage where I think it would be better to make my 
own distribution JamesLinux or something just so I can have everything 
work the way I want it to.