Emulator kills sounds on Mac OS X

[sebsto]

Hello,

I am using Android SDK on Mac OS X with an external sound card
(Edirol)
When I do start the Android Emulator, it stops all sound output on the
Mac. iTunes does not play anymore, no application (including the
emulator) produce sounds through the external sound card.

Only solution is to reboot.

Is this a known problem ? How to workaround it ?

Thanks

Seb

[Simon Broenner]

I'm going out on a limb here, because I use Windows myself, but I've
seen similar behaviour with external sound cards and ASIO drivers/
applications. Some of the sound cards (my EMU 0202USB, for instance)
aren't capable of processing a second audio stream in addition to the
ASIO stream, which leads to the active ASIO application "hogging" the
sound card for itself, and sound from other applications doesn't work
at all.

Maybe there's a similar problem on OS X? Does the same thing happen
with the internal sound chip (I'm assuming even iMacs/MacPros have
one?)?

Post by sebsto
Hello,
I am using Android SDK on Mac OS X with an external sound card
(Edirol)
When I do start the Android Emulator, it stops all sound output on the
Mac.  iTunes does not play anymore, no application (including the
emulator) produce sounds through the external sound card.
Only solution is to reboot.
Is this a known problem ?  How to workaround it ?
Thanks
Seb

[sebsto]

Hello,

When using the internal audio chip, everything is OK.
After a couple of reboot, it now works flawlessly with my external
audio card.
Very strange - I still don't understand / know what happened

Seb

Post by Simon Broenner
I'm going out on a limb here, because I use Windows myself, but I've
seen similar behaviour with external sound cards and ASIO drivers/
applications. Some of the sound cards (my EMU 0202USB, for instance)
aren't capable of processing a second audio stream in addition to the
ASIO stream, which leads to the active ASIO application "hogging" the
sound card for itself, and sound from other applications doesn't work
at all.
Maybe there's a similar problem on OS X? Does the same thing happen
with the internal sound chip (I'm assuming even iMacs/MacPros have
one?)?

Post by sebsto
Hello,
I am using Android SDK on Mac OS X with an external sound card
(Edirol)
When I do start the Android Emulator, it stops all sound output on the
Mac.  iTunes does not play anymore, no application (including the
emulator) produce sounds through the external sound card.
Only solution is to reboot.
Is this a known problem ?  How to workaround it ?
Thanks
Seb

[gpasq]

One workaround is to start the emulator with -noaudio.

Post by sebsto
Hello,
I am using Android SDK on Mac OS X with an external sound card
(Edirol)
When I do start the Android Emulator, it stops all sound output on the
Mac.  iTunes does not play anymore, no application (including the
emulator) produce sounds through the external sound card.
Only solution is to reboot.
Is this a known problem ?  How to workaround it ?
Thanks
Seb