Music in JLayer stops when other apps play music

Question

I have written a few hundred line app in Clojure that uses the JLayer Java library for audio where I run mp3s in the background. This works fine but as soon as I run any other music, YouTube etc in the background (I'm running Arch Linux) the sounds in my app completely stop.

I have wasted the last two hours and tried dozens of things to fix this so any advice is appreciated.

Answer 1

Since you have stated that you're on Linux, the problem could be on your ALSA driver. Check whether this article will help you fix the problem.