2013-05-03, 15:16
I dont know the intricacies of aplay in relation to alsa other than its a command line player for alsa, and XBMC is totally unrelated to aplay, perhpas you would like to go ask alsa forums that.
that said if this was a device blocking issue it would block any devices trying to use the soundcard, while xbmc has been known to block devices due to AE bugs, this doesnt appear to be the case, so ergo, not xbmc problem, you can determine this easily by bypassing lightdm as a xbmc laucher and lauch xbmc via xinit on system boot see HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux#Upstart_init_script (wiki) and disable lightdm for a boot or two, if it cures it you will know for sure.
But Im not a developer or going to be arguing the finer points of madness with you. I will defer to a developer like fritsch or wsnipx who know better whats going on.
uNi
that said if this was a device blocking issue it would block any devices trying to use the soundcard, while xbmc has been known to block devices due to AE bugs, this doesnt appear to be the case, so ergo, not xbmc problem, you can determine this easily by bypassing lightdm as a xbmc laucher and lauch xbmc via xinit on system boot see HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux#Upstart_init_script (wiki) and disable lightdm for a boot or two, if it cures it you will know for sure.
But Im not a developer or going to be arguing the finer points of madness with you. I will defer to a developer like fritsch or wsnipx who know better whats going on.
uNi
