Make Pulseaudio play multiple sound strems in
Gnome 2.26
I've recently upgraded my Debian as you've probably red in my
previous posts, anyways. I've noticed that after the upgrade I
couldn't play parallel sound streams of let's say rhythmbox and
audacious. So logically I started looking for a fix. First I tried
to install the
paprefs
debian package. That nice gtk interface for configuring pulseaudio
includes a menu called
Simultaneous Output
there I've ticked the
Add virtual output device for simultaneous output on all local sound cards
hoping that this would solve my issues. However that was no go, so
I googled around looking for a solution and I came upon
The following
forum thread discussing howto solve the simultaneous sound
issues. I tried some of the solutions proposed there and figured
out the fix for me.
Here is the solution itself:
1. I've created .asoundrc file in my home directory
containng:
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
I needed to restart my gnome session in order to make the changes
in .asoundrc noticeable to pulseaudio although probably simply
restarting the pulseaudio server would be a solution that won't
require to restart your current gnome session. Cheers!