[josephdyland]

I have been running XBMC on Xubuntu 10.04 on a Acer Revo R3600 - Currently have XBMC 11.0 Eden installed, Using HDMI and ALSA. Everything has been working great for sometime.

However I have one issues that has never been resolved; I have no audio outside of XBMC, When I exit out of XBMC or minimize it and use another application such as Firefox. I get no audio at all, audio works perfectly within XBMC but I get no sound out of any other application.

I have pasted asound.conf and .asoundrc below.

/usr/share/xbmc/system/asound.conf

/home/xbmc/.asoundrc

[Avathar]

I have the same problem with subsonic, http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=126389, xbmc seems to have lock on the audio device, but i didn't figured this out either..

[josephdyland]

It does seem as if XBMC has a lock on all the audio output, however even if I close XBMC I still get no audio from any other source.

What else can be done to troubleshoot this!

[optimatez]

has anyone ever figured this out? I run home automation software behind xbmc and cannot hear any announcements it makes when xbmc is running or minimized. Any advice or help would be appreciated.

[KeithLM]

Try looking at this thread. It helped me get XBMC and squeezeslave to coexist. I didn't have to change my settings in XBMC, but for squeezeslave I had to set the audio output device to dmix.