On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 14:50 -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > When working on the computer, I like to leave some background music > like many people. The problem is that music files tend to overcome > sound warnings and sinals from other apps. By default, alsa mixes them > all with the same volume, so I create a special sound device from > background music, with a separate volume control, so that sound > signals played on the default PCM device are loud, when compared to > the music. > > I used to play music with XMMS, which lets you choose which audio > device to use, and it used to work fine. However, Debian is leaving > XMMS behind and I'm trying to use totem in its place. > > The problem is that I can't find a way to make totem use my special > alsa device. Is it possible? Hi, If you are using Totem with the GStreamer backend, it should use musicaudiosink. You should be able to configure this to use your special sound device. If not from the sound preferences capplet, it should be possible in gconf. If you are using Totem with Xine, I'm guessing you need to specify the device in the Xine configuration file (somewhere in ~/.gnome2/totem) You should also look into PulseAudio, I think it can be configured to give a different volume level to system sounds. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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