How to find out what app is hogging the soundcard

[Chris Dawson]

You can also use "lsof | grep snd"

Chris

On Nov 8, 2007 10:26 AM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can find out which app is using or hogging the
> soundcard?
> It already happens at startup.
> I can use audacious or mpd but not aqualung or jack.
>
> > Aqualung:
> > Probing JACK driver... JACK server not found
> > Probing ALSA driver... device busy
> > Probing OSS driver... device busy
>
> > Jack:
> > the playback device "hw:0" is already in use. Please stop the
> > application using it and run JACK again
> > cannot load driver module alsa
>
> I use ubuntustudio 7.10 from a fresh install + xfce.
> It worked previously but I don't know what I did to break it.
>
> Help is appreciated
> regards
>         Philipp
>
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