skype steals sound card

[Konstantin Svist]

On 05/06/2011 03:51 AM, François Patte wrote:
> I am wondering how to prevent skype from stealing the soud card
> everytime some of my contacts connect (even if he does not ring me)?
> i.e.: a contact open skype while I am listening to some music, the music
> is cut and I have to close skype (which is in stand-by) if I want to
> recover my music

Did you turn off Pulseaudio? Because it's supposed to prevent this behavior.