http://ankurs.com 01110100110101010101011101100010 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:20:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://ankurs.com/2009/02/howto-mpd-with-pulse-audio/ http://ankurs.com/2009/02/howto-mpd-with-pulse-audio/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:52:23 +0000 Ankur Shrivastava http://ankurs.com/?p=453 A Little background, i just shifted to mpd from Amarok 2.0 somewhy i dont seem to like Amarok 2 but thats a different story, For those who dont know MPD s a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. which runs as a daemon and has a lot of front ends for it, Sonata being a popular one.
now coming to the point i use Fedora 10 and it has Pulseaudio by default, now the problem is i some time get “NO Read Permission” in Sonata and then mpd would stop working, in mpd.log file i will find “Error opening ALSA device “hw:0,0″: Device or resource busy” error, which means this is an pulseaudio permission issue, to solve it we need to change the mpd.conf (/etc/mpd.conf) to
audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "My Device"
device "hw:0,0" # optional
format "44100:16:2" # optional
}

then we need to add
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1
to /etc/pulse/default.pa which gives everybody permission to use pulseaudio and thats it.

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