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creating this here as a followup of https://github.com/notsecure/uTox/issues/845\r\n\r\n>Right at startup, µTox takes a handle on the audio output device.\r\nThis has the effect that no other application can use the audio output or input, even when utox doesn't use them at all for anything.\r\n\r\nThis also increases power consumption (the sound card won't enter powersaving mode).\r\n\r\nThat's reproducible for instance on ALSA without dmix (dmix reduces sound quality, and some applications also need direct hardware access).\r\n\r\n>I believe it would be excellent to open the audio device only when needed (conversation, and maybe sound notifications if any), and close them afterwards.\r\n\r\nI'll note that utox also still hogs the first soundcard even if I select a different sound card (so it would hog that other soundcard instead, that was my fix with 0.5).\r\nThis particular point looks like a new bug.\r\nutox doesn't stay stuck if I deny it access to my sound card now, though, so I use that workaround."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/comments/207549649","html_url":"https://github.com/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/223#issuecomment-207549649","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/223","id":207549649,"user":{"login":"GrayHatter","id":243408,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/243408?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter","html_url":"https://github.com/GrayHatter","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/GrayHatter/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-04-08T18:34:38Z","updated_at":"2016-04-08T18:34:38Z","body":"@Anubis-the-god-of-whatever uTox does hold an audio handle to play the ring tone, this can cause these symptoms. But if you disabled that feature (and restart maybe?) and It's still happening, something else is wrong with your system.\r\n\r\nIt also could be that your audio driver is broken, and is downgrading everything while uTox is running (assuming that uTox tries to use a lower audio quality.)\r\n\r\nIf you can replicate this issue, on demand, you should open a new issue."}}