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Audio busted all of a sudden

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Re: Audio busted all of a sudden

#21 Post by sunrat »

What an annoying bug! You could probably just do

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systemctl stop timidity.service
systemctl disable timidity.service
That way you could enable and start it again once the bug gets fixed.
Of course removing timidity is fine if you never want to play midi files.
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Re: Audio busted all of a sudden

#22 Post by phanousk »

The same with me - latest debian testing/sid. All soundcards were visible and functional (headset for example) in PulseAudio except the internal one. 'aplay -l' listed all cards including the internal but when I've tried to use it, I encountered the "audio open error: Device or resource busy". After uninstalling 'timidity' everything went OK.

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Re: Audio busted all of a sudden

#23 Post by Serenity »

Problem is fully solved for me now. The latest TiMidity update claims to fix the bug, and while I do not understand how it's been fixed, I have installed the new version, started TiMidity and played some MIDI files with it. Both PulseAudio and TiMidity are working fine together now.

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Re: Audio busted all of a sudden

#24 Post by pierrecdn »

Many thanks for that. Got some updates this night through unattended-upgrades.
This destroyed a part of my morning searching why I suddenly had no sound, I should come here more often.

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Re: Audio busted all of a sudden

#25 Post by sunrat »

The pulseaudio issues I mentioned above are now over in Sid with the latest full-upgrade. Also a nice shiny new Plasma 5.13 has appeared.
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