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It's a real shame that MOC doesn't support Pulseaudio out of the box. I say this because I almost have to use Pulseaudio (Firefox has removed ALSA support) and
by ue_ 9y ago
It's a real shame that MOC doesn't support Pulseaudio out of the box. I say this because I almost have to use Pulseaudio (Firefox has removed ALSA support) and thus if I want to play a Youtube video (or any audio in firefox) at the same time as listening to music, I can't, unless I either download and compile the Pulse-enabled fork for MOC, use a different browser, or use a different music player.
MPD comes close to MOC but it's too complex to use for me, and some clients don't actually list all of the files in my library.
I might just go back to Clementine, if it works. That's what I use on Windows.
- def- 9y agohttps://git.hans.ninja/git/hans/moc-pulse.git https://git.hans.ninja/git/hans/moc-pulse.git
- majewsky 9y agoPulseAudio has an ALSA compatibility addon, where it registers itself as the default ALSA device and therefore can be used by applications that can talk to ALSA only. In Arch, install the pulseaudio-alsa package. On other distros, refer to that distro's documentation.
- notalaser 9y agoMaybe this will help: https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse . I just got bit by the new Firefox dependency. Installing PulseAudio left me without sound in VLC (even though I'm using the PulseAudio output plugin) and Firefox can't play videos anymore. I haven't tried apulse -- I solved the problem by not using Firefox anymore -- but I hear it gives good results.
- striking 9y agoConsider installing the pulse ALSA adapter and running VLC through it. Works best for me.
- notalaser 9y agoI ended up trying apulse myself last evening and it seems to work fine, so crisis averted for now. I don't particularly enjoy having stuff much with LD_PRELOAD and friends but I suppose it's less effort. Thing is... I know what you're saying, and I don't doubt it's probably just some trivial issue that I can solve with a two-hour trip to Google and my PA config files. However, not running PA works fine, and has been working fine for like 12 years on every computer I've owned. It's literally no effort at all. I could spend some time getting sound to work again, or do absolutely nothing at all and have it working fine, just as it's worked for the last six years on the machine in question. The days of endlessly troubleshooting ALSA settings and OSS wrappers aren't really gone if we're troubleshooting PA settings and ALSA wrappers instead.
- fmoralesc 9y agoCouldn't alsa be forwarded to pulse? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA
- digi_owl 9y agohttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA.2Fdmix_without_grabbing_hardware_device https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA.2Fdmix_... Sounds like a better option, IMO.
- xfer 9y agoYou could also use cmus.