Thread: Music mutes at every incoming IM message
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2011-01-18 , 14:29
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
That is not true. The N900 would be able to handle this easily. The playback is muted by design so that the notification is audible. It seems to be a phone policy requirement for Nokia.
Yeh, ok, my bad for not making it clear and dumbing it down. Of course the driver can handle multiple threads but because of the configuration of the handset only one process can access the PulseAudio driver at a time, basically locking the other process out through (I would imagine) an IRQ type request, and when the higher priority process has finished the lower priority one is then able to kick back in.

Apologies for not making clearer first time round.
Last edited by Switch_; 2011-01-18 at 14:48.