Amarok doesn't play sound, was Re: (no subject)

[Orville Bennett]

On May 5, 2009, at 8:29 AM, François Michonneau wrote:

> Hi Iiro
>
>  You don't see it because you're using Gnome Desktop (whereas Myriam
> talks about KDE).
>
>  Maybe you can go in Amarok, Settings > Configure Amarok, then in
> Playblack click on Configure and go under the "Backend" tab to change
> your engine to Xine.
Is this a 2.1 or 2.0.2 feature? He said he's using 2.0.2.

>
>  Cheers,
>  -- François
>
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:55 +0300, iiro.wasen at saunalahti.fi wrote:
>> --- Alkuperäinen viesti ---
>> Aihe: Re: Fw: Re: Fwd: Amarok doesn't play sound, was Re: (no  
>> subject)
>> Lähetetty: 4.5.2009 11:10
>> Lähettäjä: Myriam Schweingruber [myriam.schweingruber at gmail.com]
>> Hi Iiro,
>>
>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 16:43,  <iiro.wasen at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:44:57 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>>>> FYI, sent privately by error
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 22:40,  <iiro.wasen at saunalahti.fi> wrote:
>>>>> I updated my ubuntu for the 9.0.4 version it came with the  
>>>>> Amarok version
>>>>> 2.0.2. When I try to play the music on Amarok it shows the  
>>>>> message "Too
>>>>> many errors encountered in playlist. Playback stopped.". The  
>>>>> music did
>>>>> play on the older Amarok version. I have checked that it reads  
>>>>> the music
>>>>> from the right folder. Every other music players seem to work  
>>>>> just fine.
>>>>> And lastly the music is in .mp3.
>> ..
>>> I have removed pulseaudio and i do have the libxine-ffmpeg. The  
>>> only thing I couldn't change was the Xine as my Phonon backend. I  
>>> went to the System Settings, couldn't find multimedia (I have the  
>>> finnish version of ubuntu), but I went to Sound and there was all  
>>> those 'music and video' and 'sound conferences' or something like  
>>> that and a slide panel next to them which listed things like Alsa,  
>>> HDA Intel and ofcourse the Pulseaudio. There was no Xine in the  
>>> list and it was set to 'automatic detection'.
>>
>> Still in your sound settings, there should be an engine tab on top
>> where you can see the engine in use: choose Xine instead of  
>> Gstreamer.
>>
>> ..
>>
>> (First I changed to the English language so there's no trouble in  
>> translation then) I went to System->Preferences->Sound. In there  
>> there are 'Devices' and 'Sounds'. (I probably need to look at the  
>> 'Devices'.) In there there's 'Sound Events', 'Music and Movies',  
>> 'Audio Conferencing' and 'Default Mixer Tracks'. Then there's  
>> 'Sound Playback' in the first three, plus a 'Sound Capture' in the  
>> third one and a 'Device' in the last one. Then there's a slide  
>> panel next to them and a test button. IMPORTANT All of the 'Sound  
>> Playback's are set to 'Autodetect'. Other options include 'HDA  
>> Intel ALC888 Digital (ALSA)', 'HDA Intel ALC888 Analog (ALSA)',  
>> three 'HDA Intel ALC888 Analog (OSS)'s, 'ALSA - Advanced Linux  
>> Sound Architecture', 'OSS - Open Sound System' and 'PulseAudio  
>> Sound Server'. (I don't think I need to say what's in the 'Sound  
>> Capture'.) Then there's 'HDA Intel (Alsa Mixer)' selected in the  
>> 'Devices'. The other choice is 'Realtek ALC888 (OSS Mixer).
>>
>> If you mean 'Sound Settings' there's no such place, only 'Sound  
>> Preferences'. If you mean 'Engine' tab there's no such place, only  
>> 'Devices' (and 'Sounds'). And I would probably change from  
>> Gstreamer to Xine if I found a place which included them.
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