squeezelite doesn't launch at startup (pulseaudio problem?) about squeezelite HOT 2 CLOSED

That's normal. Pulseaudio takes over the audio device, nothing else can access it directly while pulseaudio is running (you have to go through pulseaudio instead).

Either tell squeezelite tu use pulseaudio (via ALSA), or uninstall pulseaudio...

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I understand. But, when I finally do "sudo service squeezelite restart", the squeezelite daemon starts without problem while pulseaudio process was still running.

I think that pulseaudio is not making the device busy all the time. It probably release it after initializing, if no sound is played.

And using Pulseaudio (via Alsa) is not an option, I'm using squeezelite with High Fidelity in mind.
So I just found a workaround : I changed the squeezelite bash file in the /etc/init.d directory.

In the "do_start" section, I added : "sleep 10" just before the first start-stop-daemon --start command.

do_start()
{
	DAEMON_ARGS=""

	# add squeezelite name if set
	if [ -n "$SL_NAME" ]; then
		DAEMON_ARGS="${DAEMON_ARGS} -n ${SL_NAME}"
	fi

	# add souncard setting if set
	if [ -n "$SL_SOUNDCARD" ]; then
		DAEMON_ARGS="${DAEMON_ARGS} -o ${SL_SOUNDCARD}"
	fi

	# add squeezebox server ip address if set
	if [ -n "$SB_SERVER_IP" ]; then
		DAEMON_ARGS="${DAEMON_ARGS} -s ${SB_SERVER_IP}"
	fi

	# add any other options given by the user
	if [ -n "$SB_EXTRA_ARGS" ]; then
		DAEMON_ARGS="${DAEMON_ARGS} ${SB_EXTRA_ARGS}"
	fi

	# Return
	#   0 if daemon has been started
	#   1 if daemon was already running
	#   2 if daemon could not be started
	sleep 10
	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON \
		--test > /dev/null || return 1
	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON \
		--background --make-pidfile -- $DAEMON_ARGS || return 2
}

I think I'm lucky, because waiting 10 seconds made my squeezelite able to start at boot. (probably 10 seconds are enough for the pulseaudio server to release the audio device).

But, this is just a workaround. It would be great to find something else. Why not a new argument to force squeezelite to start even if the device is busy, or without testing its availability ?

thank you

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