{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/223","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/223/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/223/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/223/events","html_url":"https://github.com/GrayHatter/uTox/issues/223","id":137238914,"number":223,"title":"utox hogs the first and current sound cards all the time","user":{"login":"calimeroteknik","id":7931883,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7931883?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik","html_url":"https://github.com/calimeroteknik","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/calimeroteknik/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"e33b3b"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/labels/cat:audio_video","name":"cat:audio_video","color":"207de5"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/labels/pri:medium","name":"pri:medium","color":"face1e"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/milestones/13","html_url":"https://github.com/GrayHatter/uTox/milestones/Next%20Release%20v0.9","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/GrayHatter/uTox/milestones/13/labels","id":1656221,"number":13,"title":"Next Release v0.9","description":"","creator":{"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},"open_issues":29,"closed_issues":14,"state":"open","created_at":"2016-03-20T21:56:02Z","updated_at":"2016-05-14T08:18:15Z","due_on":"2016-05-20T07:00:00Z","closed_at":null},"comments":10,"created_at":"2016-02-29T12:17:12Z","updated_at":"2016-05-14T08:18:15Z","closed_at":"2016-05-14T08:18:15Z","body":"I'm 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.\r\n\r\n<bountysource-plugin>\r\n---\r\nWant to back this issue? 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