playing music files

[Lukas Loehrer]

The problem is most likely that you are using gnome-speech with
festival which accesses the sound card through OSS. If your sound card
or its OSS driver is not multi-channel capable, it is not possible for
multiple programs to use the sound card simultaniously. The solution
is to use Alsa for all sound playback. Thus, both your TTS and all
other audio programs should access your sound card via the Alsa
interface. You might be able to keep using some programs that can only
handle OSS by running them with the "aoss" command which will redirect
their accesses to "/dev/dsp" to Alsa. Speech-dispatcher for example
supports Alsa natively.

Best regards, Lukas

Kenny Hitt writes ("Re: playing music files"):
> Your problem might be your sound card.  What sound card is in that
> computer?
> 
>           Kenny
> 
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 02:10:52PM -0600, mike coulombe wrote:
> > Hi, I noticed when playing music with the movie player,
> > orca doesn't work.
> > Is there another player for mp3 files that works with orca when it is playing.
> > Mike.