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connexion2000

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Registered: 2006-10-15

Posts: 116

Problem with arts

Hi!
I use kde 3.5.5. When Kde is going to play the sound with arts, the whole system just hangs for 1,5 seconds. Then sound plays, and everything backs to normal. And it happens every time, the sound is going to be played. When in kcontrol I turn off option to run arts with highest possible priority, there is no hang, but sound plays with 2 seconds delay. artsplay somesound gives:
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Can't connect to sound server
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How to solve this problem without arts uninstallation?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,949

Re: Problem with arts

kde control center > sound & multimedia > system notifications > player settings

Set it to use an external player .

I use ogg123 as it can play 99% of the sounds KDE gives.

( Do Pacman -S vorbis-tools to install this player )

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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Problem with arts

Yes, the KDE arts sound system is far from good. I don't think I know anyone who actually uses it. Most use a custom to play their sounds. Like Lone_Wolf suggested.

Jarsto

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From: Groningen, The Netherlands

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 35

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Re: Problem with arts

Like Lone Wolf I use an external player to replace arts. I personally prefer the "play" command from the "sox" package, this handles pretty much all formats commonly used for audio, not just ogg. Now that ALSA supports software-mixing there's no reason to use arts anymore as far as I can see.

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Damnshock

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: Problem with arts

Alsa software mixing is a holy S***. The best choise is to use a card with hardware mixing or I've found out that esd works pretty well as esdplay also

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aquila_deus

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 348

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Re: Problem with arts

Alsa software mixing is a holy S***. The best choise is to use a card with hardware mixing or I've found out that esd works pretty well as esdplay also

Damnshock

jackd >> everything else!