Sound faults in Version 2.3.0 w/ Debian Squeeze

[AG]

AG wrote:
> Thomas Lübking wrote:
>> There's a known bug in the phonon xine backend (and or certain 
>> versions of libxine) regarding flac files - so if playback happens to 
>> stop on flac files you should try the gtreamer, mplayer or vlc backends.
>>
>> Still i recommand to get pulseaudio out of the way at least for 
>> testing (it's just another pot. chainbreaker, try "sudo 
>> /etc/init.rd/pulseaudio stop")
>> I had several systems (though Ubuntu) where this broke sound in general.
>>
>> Cheers
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> I've tested this again, ensuring that no flac nor ogg files were in 
> the play queue and it still stopped audio playback after the second song.
>
> Pulseaudio doesn't seem to be enabled on my system:
>    $ init.rd/pulseaudio stop
>    bash: init.rd/pulseaudio: No such file or directory
>
> There also doesn't seem to be any alternative to xine ... nor any 
> obvious ways that I can add a new backend to the list either, so I 
> think that I am stuck with this situation, which effectively renders 
> Amarok unusable for me.
>
My mistake - it is installed at /usr/bin .  However, after stopping the 
process, Amarok gives no sound whatsoever .. which is even worse than 
stopping after two songs.  Not cool. 

Any ideas on a fix?

Cheers

AG