ALSA lib pcm Error

I am having trouble playing sound with MATLAB R2015a on Linux/XUbuntu 15.04. When executing

load handel;
sound(y,Fs);

for instance, the terminal throws the errors shown in the attachement. A colleague of mine is facing the same issues on an XUbuntu machine.

I use an external class complient USB sound interface (Lexicon Alpha) which is the system's default sound device.

What to do?

Answer 1

[Adam Hug]

Try increasing the value of the latency that the audio device runs at. To do this, execute the following steps :

1. Navigate to $MATLABROOT/toolbox/matlab/audiovideo/@audioplayer/ and open audioplayer.m for editing.
2. Increase the value of DesiredLatency (on line 147) to something like 0.1
3. Save the file and retry playing the audio files from MATLAB

[JAAdrian]

Brilliant, works like a charm!