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

[Johannes Manhave]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Orville Bennett <illogical1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
from a terminal emulator (gnome console?)

kcmshell4 kcm_phonon

should get the same thing.

>
>>
>>  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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