No sound in Amarok since upgrade - SOLVED

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>   
>> I have used Amarok as my "jukebox" for a couple of years, but since 
>> upgrading to Kubuntu Jaunty with KDE 4 and Amarok 2, I get no sound. I 
>> have sound in Miro and some other movie apps, so it is not a hardware 
>> problem. There is a clue that it is due to Pulse Audio lingering on 
>> somehow, but I don't know how to get rid of the last traces if that is 
>> the case.
>>     
>
> Try searching your package list for a phonon-pulseaudio package (which
> may not be named exactly that) and remove it.
>
> Then try rebooting.  Seriously, I've heard it helps with these crazy
> pulseaudio problems
After trying everything else, including re-installing the OS, I decided 
to do a scorched-earth approach. I used the locate command to find every 
file on my hard drive that had "pulse" in the name, and deleted the lot 
of them. Then I re-booted, and now Amarok works.

Regards,

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