Phonon oddities

[Ian Monroe]

2009/4/21 Christoph Spielmann <spielc at gmail.com>:
> Hmm! Well i guess it makes kinda sense. I was in a hurry and not barely
> awake when i wrote this
>
> 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", 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.
>
> I hope that's better now ;) Also i CC'ed kde-multimedia-mailinglist as they
> probably know better what's going on here.

That was going to be my suggestion. ;)

You could try uninstalling pulseaudio. That usually fixes weird
problems like this.

Ian