Rhythmbox giving up after few songs

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:03, Piero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Often after playing couple of songs in Rhythmbox, this error:
> 
> osscommon: Unable to open /dev/dsp (in use ?)

You may want to switch to the esd output sink using gst-properties.  I
use it, and have never had a problem.  The one downside is you can't
have GNOME action sounds enabled at the same time.

Joe

> 
> comes up and this is end of playing in Rhythmbox, though XMMS with 
> OSS set as the output work without problems. I haven't found any 
> other way to restore functionality besides restarting the computer.
> 
> I am facing this on Thinkpad 600e with FreeBSD ntbk 5.1-RELEASE-p9 
> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p9 #1: Fri Oct  3 23:35:49 CEST 2003     
> root at ntbk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMYRUSELF  i386
> 
> rhythmbox-0.5.3     Audio player for the Gnome 2 desktop environment
> xmms-esound-1.2.8_1 X Multimedia System --- An audio player with a 
> Winamp GUI
> 
> Have you been familiar with this?
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