Phonon oddities

[Christoph Spielmann]

Hi everybody!

I've been experiencing some really curious stuff when it comes to 
phonon. As i don't need a full-blown desktop environment (i just use 
some application from both kde and gnome mostly kde tho) i kinda created 
my own window manager consisting of compiz, compiz-deskmenu and awn. One 
of my fav programs is and probably will forever be amarok. Since 
kde-4.2.2 when i start amarok without doing anything phonon seems to 
play music (progress bar is showing some activity) but i can't hear a 
tone. I found out that i HAVE to start systemsettings before i start 
amarok and execute the following steps to actually hear something: Go to 
"Multimedia" and check or uncheck the "Show advanced devices" checkbox 
and click on Apply. After that sound works perfectly but now this whole 
procedure starts to get on my nerves. I tried to find out how (or better 
said if) i can somehow automate this whole process using qdbus but till 
now i haven't found a working solution. So does anybody experience the 
same issues and have a working solution? Actually any input would be 
welcome as i ran out of ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Christoph