Getting Gtick to work alongside other sound apps

[th3james]

Basically, i want to be able to use Gtick (metronome) at the same time as watching videos, so i can practice my guitar. However, Gtick uses OSS (which, as far as i can tell, is a hatefully poor sound engine), and won't play nicely with other apps. I've tried to get it to work with Alsa using using alsa-oss and the command
aoss gtick
but gtick behaves the same, either not allowing sound apps to play if its run first, or giving this error if not:
Couldn't start metronome.
Please check if specified sound device
and sample file are accessible.

Anyone got any ideas to get it working? or any other metronome programs ( i couldn't find any in the repos)

Thanks in advance

James

[fastfret79]

I was having the same issue but using 'aoss gtick' worked for me.

Browse to you /dev/ directory and look for anything that starts with dsp and then goto 'Edit > Preferences' in GTick and enter that path in the 'Sound Device Filename' - mine is just '/dev/dsp'

Hope that helps!?