Comment 80 for bug 337314

2009/5/15 Νίκος Αλεξανδρής <email address hidden>:
> What I can't understand is why now Totem doesn't play music while
> Audacious and VLC do play fine. Anyway, sound system still is complex to
> get it working properly in other machines as well (as far as I read in
> various posts in ubuntu-forums).
you can check which app "blocks" alsa with
sudo lsof | grep snd/
normally only pulseaudio and mixer_app should be listed