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neutrix

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2009-08-29

Posts: 64

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Arch64 KDE4.3 - Amarok waits 5 mins between songs [SOLVED]

Hi all,

Recent updates have caused amarok to take 5 mins each time it wants to play a new song. I believe updates caused it because it has only just become an issue after updating and I post in the 64 bit section as I believe it isn't an issue on 32 bit arch. There is a bug report on KDE's bug tracker, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205682 , but they think it might be an issue with Arch so I decided to post here as well.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? There is a large amount of information provided about the problem in the link that I posted above.

Thanks for your time.

Last edited by neutrix (2009-09-03 08:38:48)

Kronophage

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From: Liege, Belgium

Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 9

Re: Arch64 KDE4.3 - Amarok waits 5 mins between songs [SOLVED]

Hi guys.
Just wanted to say i got the same issue

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Laptop Dell Vostro 1500 : 15''(1440x900), core2duo T7250@2.00Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 160Gb@5400rpm, NVidia 8400M

neutrix

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2009-08-29

Posts: 64

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Re: Arch64 KDE4.3 - Amarok waits 5 mins between songs [SOLVED]

Apologies, I found the answer in another thread on this forum. The problem turned out to be the latest version of gstreamer. I changed the backend for phonon to xine and everything works fine now.

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

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Re: Arch64 KDE4.3 - Amarok waits 5 mins between songs [SOLVED]

Yeah, changing to Xine worked for me too, found this out today. At first I thought it was an Amarok bug, since I've never gotten Amarok 2.x to work right for me, so I was just like "well, it still doesn't work". Turns out it finally is usable for me But yeah, use Xine.

fredo696

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Registered: 2009-08-10

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Re: Arch64 KDE4.3 - Amarok waits 5 mins between songs [SOLVED]

updated my system today since 3-4 weeks, and the same problem occured

installing phonon-xine backend right now!

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Arch 64 / AMD PhenomII X4 940 / Nvidia integrated or ATI Radeon depending upon X.Org driver bugs! (main rig)
Arch 64 / AMD E-350 / HP DM1z (laptop)

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Arch64 KDE4.3 - Amarok waits 5 mins between songs [SOLVED]

Same for me. Okay, with xine, I can use the equalizer in Amarok 2.2 beta 1, but I like gstreamer more...

Edit: I'm on i686.

Last edited by ChemBro (2009-09-06 07:09:48)