[kwlug-disc] Monday May 2 presentation details

[Daniel Villarreal]

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>> ... music play from one session and continue playing in another
>> session (switching users in KDE/Xfce,etc.) under GNU/Linux, on
>> the same computer,..Is this doable?
> 
> It should be fairly easy using MPD. It runs as a system service
> that you control via various front-ends, including a number of
> terminal, web, or GUI interfaces. My personal favourite is
> Cantata.
> 
> I run MPD with IP streaming enabled so I can listen to my entire
> music collection at work, or through a tablet in the yard, etc.

Sounds interesting, hope to try this out ASAP.


>> ... old article online "How to make PulseAudio run once at boot
>> for all your users..." ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect)
>> PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused Floating point
>> exception (core dumped)
>> 
>> ... fine in the original configuration, but doing the suggested
>> changes breaks sound completely.
> 
> You could try the suggestion here: 
> http://billauer.co.il/blog/2014/01/pa-multiple-users/
> 
> This sets up pulseaudio for a single user, but allows loopback 
> connections from other uses to access the pulseaudio driver.

Thanks for the info!


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