I want my reliable laptop based Amarok jukebox back

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 11. August 2013, 18:36:36 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Am Sonntag, 11. August 2013, 14:49:36 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > > I strongly suggest you use distribution default settings when it comes
> > > to Phonon and Pulseaudio, so if a basic installation gives you PA,
> > > don't remove it afterwards, as it was obviously meant to be used with
> > > it. Since Kubuntu uses basically what Sid provides, with rather small
> > > changes to KDE, I think you should first rule out that you didn't
> > > inadvertently disable PA when ti was meant to be used.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Okay. I hear you:
> > 
> >
> > I removed the USB sound card after having this interference noise during
> > bath  once again.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Now I also installed pulseaudio 4.0-6 and removed all phonon related I
> > could  find (.config/kde.org/libphonon.conf,
> > .kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc and some service files for vlc and
> > gstreamer plugins in ./kde/share/config)
> >
> > 
> >
> > I also installed rtkit.
> >
> > 
> > 
> >
> > And I got audio glitches again. Dropouts.
> 
> On the positive side: Hibernation and resume seems to work. Sort of.
> 
> It loops the last sample on hibernation for about 10-20 seconds and about 
> resume for about a minute until it has fully loaded itself back from swap.

Okay, so this basically works.

I just stop playback before resume and start it afterwards. No crashes so far.

There are occasional dropouts, but quite rare and short. Maybe it will run a 
bit better with Pulseaudio, since in my experience, removing Pulseaudio was 
often quite effective to get rid of dropout or latency issues.

But removing the USB sound card from the picture helped quite a lot.

I see a amarok 2.8 package having been uploaded to Debian, I will try with it 
and try to use the in built stop playback before hibernation and resume it 
afterwards.

Then I think whether to try without Pulseaudio, add in a USB 2.0 based sound 
card, instead of USB 1.1, or just replacing the laptop with something Intel HD 
audio based and hoping for a bit better sound quality. I still think quality 
has been better with the Sonica Theater.

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