sound works randomly?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 13:07:51 -0500
Tom Horsley wrote:

> I'm very confused. If I run the gnome sound control,
> test speakers works fine. If I run "play", the sound
> plays normally. If I run "aplay", I got no sound till
> I rebooted, then aplay started to work, but if I run
> mplayer or youtube in google-chrome, I still get no sound.

More exceedingly random results:

VLC works OK, youtube in firefox works OK.

Has someone changed the audio interface and mplayer and
google-chrome haven't been rebuilt yet?