No audio playback and crash on library build

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Justin Brown <justin.brown1.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm using Kubuntu 8.10 (AMD64) with KDE4.1.2 and Amarok from Project Neon
> (no version number but the build date is Nov. 3). I can't get any audio to
> playback. I have tried lots of my music, shoutcast stations, and a magnatune
> store song, but I can't get any audio playback. the status bar moves like it
> is playing, but there's nothing. I have no problems with any other audio
> applications (including Amarok 1.4.10). I couldn't find any options to set
> the playback device, which I think may be the problem. Also, When trying to
> build my library (~6500 tracks), Amarok also crashes around 80%.
> Some info on my system: Xine backend to Phonon
>
> lspci | grep Audio
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
>
> Thanks for all the help,
> Justin Brown

Yes it is a problem with current Phonon SVN. We are working on a fix.
Please wait for package updates. It should solve itself soonish.
About the crash: Please get a backtrace. Otherwise there is not much
we can do unfortunately.


Cheers
Lydia


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