I've just stopped Alsa with /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound stop. and now Music player will play my ripped CD tracks ok, which seems to verify that the OSS sound driver is still loaded into the Audigy 2 soundcard. Just need to remove OSS from the soundcard, and then hopefully Music player and the ccrma stuff will have control over the soundcard. And if pigs had wings they could fly. LOL.