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pquiney

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 9

Amarok 2.5.0-1 - no sound

Updated to Amarok 2.5.0-1 and now there is no sound, although the track appears to 'progress' normally.

Going to Settings->Configure Amarok->Playback->configure Phonon I was able to select the preferred audio device and got sound when pressing the 'Test' button. Still no sound when playing a (ogg) file though.

Downgraded back to Amarok 2.4.3-3 and all is well again.

Anyone else seeing this?

gkdeb

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From: Uruguay

Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 4

Re: Amarok 2.5.0-1 - no sound

Exactly the same for me... waiting for a solution.

gkdeb

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From: Uruguay

Registered: 2010-02-23

Posts: 4

Re: Amarok 2.5.0-1 - no sound

Using GStreamer backend for phonon instead of Xine did the trick. Now amarok 2.5 works fine for me.

pquiney

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 9

Re: Amarok 2.5.0-1 - no sound

Thanks gkdeb, it works for me now as well.

The Gstreamer install is mentioned in the Amarok Wiki page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Amarok) in the section on Ampache/MP3 streaming.

Amarok found the new backend and put it as the preferred one. I had to quit and restart Amarok before it worked.

I would like to know why the xine backend fails (just for interest).... glad to have some sound in the mean time though

Phil Q

ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Amarok 2.5.0-1 - no sound

I would like to know why the xine backend fails (just for interest)....

The support for the Xine backend stopped about 6 months ago.

pquiney

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 9

Re: Amarok 2.5.0-1 - no sound

@Chembro

Thanks for the update regarding the 'death' of the Xine backend

The Amarok 2.5.0-1 has fixed a really annoying problem I was having. Every time the previous amarok started, it sat the system at >60% load until you opened the Amarok window, then all was well. I did try to diagnose things, I got a 'flood' of X errors when running 'amarok' from a console (no debug flag needed). These ceased as soon as you opened the Amarok window. I  worked round it by remembering to open Amarok every time I started the system.

Still one 'cosmetic' glitch left: if you use the 'Now Playing' KDE widget, Amarok 'forgets' to update the artwork on the first track, when playing an album. When track 2 starts, the artwork changes. Until then you either get a 'blank' or whatever the previous album was.

The above I can live with, I still prefer Amarok to the other players available for Linux by a long way.