Fedora 14 and Amarok - glitches/clicks between tracks

[Brian Morrison]

On Sat, 21 May 2011 20:54:08 -0700
Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I upgraded to F14 64 bit recently and now have glitching when playing
> > back music via Amarok, only happens as the track changes but it's
> > annoying. Used to be perfectly fine with Fedora 12 and earlier, never
> > tried F13.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> It's always a good idea when running into playback sound issues like
> these, to change phonon-backend, and see if that improves things.
> Recommended are phonon-vlc, and phonon-gstreamer. phonon-xine is
> deprecated. All are available as packages.
> 
> Settings > Configure Amarok > Playback > Configure Phonon: Backend tab

That's a fair point, I have not changed any of this for a very long
time. I have now installed the vlc phonon backend and changed the
preferences to put the xine backend as last of the three.

Will have to see if this helps.

Thanks for the suggestion.

-- 

Brian Morrison

                "I am not young enough to know everything"
                                                          Oscar Wilde