Tracks only partially playing

Jeff Mitchell mitchell at kde.org
Tue Jul 28 19:09:24 UTC 2009


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 July 2009 18:45:53 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>> Hey Anne,
>>
> Hi ;-)
> 
>> Do you have PulseAudio installed?
> 
> Yes, and I've made sure that there is a viable output in fallback position 
> (using systemsettings).  Also, remember that they play properly in kaffeine.

Which kaffeine backend? (or are you using the unreleased KDE4 version?)

>> Does changing the Phonon backend
>> help improve the situation?
>>
> Amarok didn't play at all out-of-the-box.  The Phonon backend was set to xine.  
> I changed it to gstreamer to get it working.

Are you trying to play MP3s? If so many distros require an add-on codec
package to play MP3s (GStreamer doesn't have this problem because they
licensed the codec).

--Jeff

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