None of these are really good options:

* run mpd as your user - security
* network access to pulseaudio - kludge at best
* system-wide pulseaudio daemon - tons of problems:
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode

I guess it's just not meant to be!  Fortunately I don't really have any need
to use pulseaudio.

Thanks y'all!
Jeffrey


On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote:

> On 2009/10/31 17:40, Jeffrey Middleton <jefr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, I thought of this, and network access, and system-wide pulseaudio.
> > Uninstalling pulseaudio works pretty well too.  Just wondering if there's
> a
> > non-workaround solution.
>
> Running MPD as your user is usually not a good idea.  The real problem
> is that you have two PulseAudio instances, fighting over exclusive
> access to your sound card.  Don't run two.  Make MPD use the one
> single system-wide daemon.  Don't ask me how, I've never used
> PulseAudio except during MPD development.
>
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