Well here's an update. I tried the killall pulseaudio and it said no such process.
Second is that I had not put in the necessary tags for the advanced settings.xml file. Here is what mine looks like in /home/username/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml:
Quote:<advancedsettings>
<audio>
<headroom>0</headroom>
<karaokesyncdelay>0</karaokesyncdelay>
<defaultplayer>dvdplayer</defaultplayer>
</audio>
</advancedsettings>
And it still don't work. In fact now it sometimes doesn't even work for me, it will continue to use the paplayer it seems. So even though I press play, then play using, then select dvdplayer, I get no sound output and the time on the music does not advance. But after trying that several times, it did work once for me. Then it went back to not working after that.
I've also discovered a strange behavior. If I just click the OK button on my remote when on a song I want to play, it instead selects a different one. It's like it's on shuffle mode. And even though I had changed the default player to dvdplayer instead of paplayer, I got no sound then. Anyone else experience this?
Clearly the music part of this is still extremely buggy to me. Hence I can't use it yet. Too bad. I'll try it the next time it is updated on the next release. Unless someone else has a way for me to get it to work.