[MPlayer-users] two sound files at the same time - problem with crontab (mplayer involved)

[Christian]

Hi altogether,


I am curious as how to solve a peculiar "problem".

I have Big-Ben chimes played out with *mplayer* every quarter of an hour 
and put the respective entries in my /crontab/.
Example:

15 * * * * if [ ! -f /tmp/Ruhe ]; then mplayer 
/media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big_Ben_quarter_hour 
 > /dev/null 2>&1; fi

That works very well. But I run into problems if I have some other noise 
(sound-file) played out *at the same time*.

As a rule I run this command:

mpv --loop=inf 
/media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Musik/sounds_von_anoise/sounds/coffee_shop.ogg

from within a terminal.

which plays some coffee-shop background noise in a permanent loop.
This works well too.

However: when running the mpv-command for background noise (which runs 
continually) I don´t get the chimes with *mplayer* any more...
... which is weird as they *ARE* played back when issuing the respective 
command from within a terminal.

So, the command

mplayer 
/media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1/DATEN-PARTITION/Dokumente/Pausenzeichen/Big_Ben_chimes/Big_Ben_quarter_hour 


works even if "coffee-shop" is running at the same time.
But it *doesn´t* work whenever it´s started by *crontab*!

Does anybody have a clue why that "problem" exists?

Many thanks in advance.
Greetings from Rosika