Multiple songs playing simultaneously

[Matěj Laitl]

On 16. 12. 2012 AG wrote:
> On a standard GNU/ Linux Debian squeeze 32-bit distribution:
> 
> I am running Amarok (Version 2.3.1 Using KDE 4.4.3 (KDE 4.4.3)). AFAIK,
> all libraries are up-to-date.
> 
> When playing some - not all - music files, the tracks selected are
> interrupted by another track playing simultaneously. and always by the
> same artist as the target track. For example, playing Tool "10,000 days"
> I will hear Tool "Lateralus" for the duration of approximately the first
> fifteen or twenty seconds. If I pause the intended song (e.g. "10,000
> days") then the second song will eventually play itself out after about
> 15 - 20 seconds.  Also, during this time Amarok will freeze, and it
> cannot be shut down, I cannot select an alternate track and I cannot
> change anything about the program. A message in Nautilus (I'm running
> Gnome) will tell me that Amarok is not responding, and ask if I want to
> force quit or wait.
> 
> What on earth is going on here? I cannot find a viable solution on the
> web.  To date, I have deleted all files from my HDD, including
> configuration files on the /home/AG directory, but after reinstalling,
> Amarok responds in the same way. At first it was just a few files, but
> now this is becoming increasingly common to the point that I am
> reluctant to use Amarok any further, and yet really don't like the
> alternatives to it.

Hi, sorry about the inconvenience.

This behaviour is particularly strange and I've haven't heard of somebody else 
being affected by this. The first suspect is always the sound system: Phonon. We 
now have a set of supported backends that we test against:

 * phonon-vlc 0.6.1 (or newer)
 * phonon-gstreamer 4.6.2 (or newer)

Please make sure you use one of these (including the version!) and if so, try 
switching to the other one.

Regards,
		Matěj