[SOLVED] Last.fm: The ALSA soundsystem is either busy or not present.

**bhadotia** · August 1st, 2008

The Last.fm software used to work fine when I first installed it but now it seems to be having some problem - may be because of something I did. I sometimes get the error message in the title and sometimes it works fine .
What could be wrong ? Any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

**bhadotia** · August 1st, 2008

Also I recently noticed that the 'system sounds' I enabled in System>Preferences>sound are also not working.

**bhadotia** · August 1st, 2008

Found the solution on this thread. Sorry , I should have tried a google search before posting here

**bhadotia** · September 4th, 2008

Although its got the last fm to play if another music player is also running ; but I've completely lost sound in flash (youtube videos). So I had to delete the configuration file to get the sound back in flashplayer.

But the problem still remains lastfm player (or any other player using alsa) cannot play while another similar player is also running.

I'm also gonna post in the original post above now to see if I come upwith some solution.

**bhadotia** · September 19th, 2008

Alright, as no replies are coming I guess I will have to mark the thread as solved (even though we have not solved it

).

**nowshining** · September 19th, 2008

i would of helped but u don't have KDE am i correct?? if you had kde I would of shown you a solution.

**bhadotia** · September 20th, 2008

Originally Posted by nowshining

i would of helped but u don't have KDE am i correct?? if you had kde I would of shown you a solution.

Actually I have got KDE 4.1 from the launchpad repos. So if you can really help please do so

P.S.: Marking the thread as unsolved now

**Qinjuehang** · September 20th, 2008

Try launching Last.fm in terminal, and placing pasuspender in front of it.

Code:

pasuspender lastfm

**bhadotia** · September 20th, 2008

Originally Posted by Qinjuehang

Try launching Last.fm in terminal, and placing pasuspender in front of it.

Code:

pasuspender lastfm

Actually I'm now giving up on lastfm. I think we should better leave it to the developers to solve the bug.

I an still listen to lastfm through rhythmbox and amarok ; the only reason I wanted lastfm to work flawlessly was that it had a nice look and this error just spoiled all the fun.

Still thanks or the replies

Marking the thread as solved now