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Multichannel Mixing
I run into this problem with my IBM T40. For example, you want to play music in a flash movie during a mozilla session while you also listen to your mp3s with mplayer or xmms. MPlayer and XMMS provides particular plugins you can load to use ALSA, but this wouldn't solve the problem at all. In fact, you have to use the dmix plugin to get the multiple streams mixed before they access the soundcard. Alsa can do this for you, but you need to tell ALSA to forward the streams first through the dmix plugin. Setup an .asoundrc in your home and follow the first two steps at Dmix Plugin. You should be able to play your mp3s with the dmix plugin. If this isn't working try to unload the ALSA OSS emulation modules, to make sure, that the application really uses alsa. If this works, add this example to your .asoundrc: ...