Update: I found a workaround by creating this small script:

> #!/bin/sh

> pw-play --media-role=event "$1" &

and calling that instead of pw-play directly, so now Knotify can play as many sounds simultaneously as it wants.

I guess this is solved, then?

On Thursday 05 June 2025 01.09.41 Simon Stockhaus via tde-users wrote:

> I want to play system notifications through Pipewire's pw-play due to

> having some issues with ARtS (high CPU usage, volume spikes when playing

> multiple sounds - I'll write a bug report later), but if I just specify

> 'pw-play' as the player in the Knotify settings it only plays one sound at

> a time, I'm presuming since it's run as a foreground process. I know that

> you can add an '&' to the end of a command in the terminal to spawn it as a

> background process, is there a way to do something similar here? 'pw-play

> &' doesn't work since I'm assuming the file argument is appended to the end

> (or if the sound data is passed through stdin, idk how this works). Help

> would be appreciated.

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