SlipStream, erm, slips the stream

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Thomas Olsen <tanghus at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know, it was a bad pun ;-)
>
> Before reporting a bug I wanted to check if anyone else experiences this:
>
> My playlist usually contains a few (downloaded) podcasts and the a radio
> stream at the end.
> The podcasts play just fine - when one is over it goes on to the next in the
> list. But when it goes on to the radio stream it kind of starts, meaning that
> the OSD says it starts and the status line says it playing but absolutely no
> sound..?
> I have to manually start the stream to get it to play.

First, what phonon backend are you using? See Settings > Configure
Amarok > Playback > Configure Phonon: Backend tab. Usually a choice
between Xine, VLC, and Gstreamer. All available in packages, and all
with various strengths and weaknesses. While Xine usually works best
for me, it is unmaintained, and the future is VLC and Gstreamer.

Next, you might try running Amarok from the console: amarok -d
--nofork and watch the output when the sound shuts down. Is Pulseaudio
giving up, if you have PA installed? Or is the backend or phonon
itself reporting a problem?

Valorie

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