Amarok stopping playback seemingly "at random"?

[Matt]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 08:01 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> I'd argue if the hangs happen at expected/predetermined times (on pause),
>> that it doesn't really qualify as "at random". :)
>
> Of course it's not completely random. It clearly has something to do
> with pausing. My use of the term "at random" meant only that it doesn't
> happen every time I pause, nor is it completely regular (i.e. like every
> third time). Sometimes it will happen two or three pauses in a row, then
> I can go a whole day of pausing when I take breaks without a hang. In
> that sense, there is an element of randomness to it. What isn't random
> are the symptoms. Once it hangs, I can't get it to play again without
> quitting out of Amarok, killall amarok, and restarting, at which point
> it will start up again at the beginning of whatever song was playing
> when the hang occurred.

I've experienced this problem as well but have not taken any steps to
track down the root cause.  If you have the PulseAudio Manager
installed, you can go into the "Clients" tab, select "amarok" from
that tab and kill it.  Playback should resume from the spot where it
hung to begin with.

Matt