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Saiyato / volumio-squeezelite-plugin

Volumio plugin to install and configure a Squeezelite client
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Release ALSA to enable playing from Volumio again #2

Closed TommySharpNZ closed 6 years ago

TommySharpNZ commented 6 years ago

Hey there.... Was giving this plugin a try and it works really well! Once I've played some audio via my squeezebox server, how do we "release" it so that someone can play audio again through Volumio? The only way I can do it at the moment is to stop the plugin.

Saiyato commented 6 years ago

That is correct, I have no idea how else to stop the client, it's not the plugin that uses ALSA, but the squeezelite process. So killing the process will release it, the client is not designed to be used in parallel with other software I suppose.

marcoc1712 commented 6 years ago

Saiyato, just a little suggestion here;

launching squeezelite with -C x parameters will release the output device after x secs of silence (please replace x with a valid integer, 1 is perfect).

That way You could use it with any other player with no wonder of stopping squeezelite process. Obviously, you could then get an error trying to use squeezelite when the sound card is in use by others, so you should do the same in other players too.

Saiyato commented 6 years ago

This is a great find! I will see how I can implement this.