rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

scv5 · 2009-09-25 13:04:03

I, for the longest time, have been using Openbox or Wmii with OSS. But I decided after over a year of not touching KDE that I'd try going back. As much as I love the Unix way, sometimes remember 10,000 keybindings for 100 cli apps and such gets a tad old and I desired the ease of a full blown DE again.

So I installed KDEmod (4). Great, except KDE complained about not seeing Alsa, so i spent last night getting Alsa working. And it does work. aplay on a wav file works, flash videos in firefox and konqueror work.

But no audio apps does.

Amarok (the latest and greatest) will not load my entire music collection into the playlist, it freezes up the entire desktop environment off and on for about an hour in attempt to do so, the list never populates with even one single track, and eventually it just crashes. Considering the app has been beaten with an ugly stick, no big loss.

So I try Songbird, which is complaining about: "both autoaudiosink and alsasink elements are missing" . The application loads, it loads my entire library but when I go to play a song it throws this error over and over again.

Ok, so back to the gtk world right? Good old rhythmbox, well no there as well as rhythmbox is throwing the exact same error as Songbird.

So.. off the Amarok 1.4 from AUR. It compiles just fine. Got it all setup with mysql to handle my large collection, and bam, xine can't detect any audio drivers.

Since i've struck out, and the last 3 are throwing errors about audio drivers and alsasink and whatnot, i'm guessing something is wrong with my alsa installation.

Any one got a clue about what's going on ?

CaptainHero · 2009-09-25 13:28:34

it does sound like some alsa issue.

using kdemod 4 as well. all i had to do for sound setup was installing "kdemod-phonon-backends-xine" and "codecs" from AUR.

have u tried running

alsaconf

yet?

scv5 · 2009-09-25 13:35:49

kdemod-phonon-backend-xine was already installed, but I just reinstalled, no change.

I have had all my codecs installed for a long time (at least I think, mplayer, rythmbox with oss, audacious with oss, totem, and mpd/mpc +oss all worked fine).

and yes I have ran alsaconf.

Solid1986Snake · 2009-09-25 13:42:34

Look into alsamixer.... are ur channels there?

scv5 · 2009-09-25 13:58:28

master, master mono, headphone, pcm, line, cd, mic, phone, s/pdif, and aux

yup. they show up in kde's volume applet as well.

Solid1986Snake · 2009-09-25 14:26:16

Any custom .asoundrd or /etc/asound.conf ?

scv5 · 2009-09-25 14:55:07

Nope, just what's specified in the wiki here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … _Equalizer

scv5 · 2009-09-25 16:40:46

I did what was stated here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79873 as I have a nvidia hda card (it says to install phonon-xine )

amarok 1.4 still states that xine can't find drivers

songbird now plays without error, as in the application looks like its playing the song, very faint high pitched static comes through my headphones (but it inaudibile on the speakers) but no song actually audbily plays. But at least it stopped throwing errors.

with amarok 2 (i guess that's the version number of the newest in extra), i am now having the problem described here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78230 regarding taglib-extra, i deleted amarok from /var/cache/pacman/pkg, pacman -Rns the packages and then pacman -Sy'd them again, I still have the error " amarok: error while loading shared libraries: libtag-extras.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

and rhythmbox (which i'd really rather not use) now behave exactly like songbird does. It acts like it's playing, but I hear nothing. No channels are muted.

CaptainHero · 2009-09-25 18:44:11

are you sure u got the latest taglib-extras (1.01-1) installed? i had to choose a different mirror cause mine wasn't synced.

scv5 · 2009-09-25 18:45:57

$ sudo pacman -Sy taglib-extras
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
kdemod-legacy is up to date
kdemod-core is up to date
kdemod-extragear is up to date
warning: taglib-extras-1.0.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling

yup

AngryKoala · 2009-09-25 19:53:51

Just out of curiosity, does oss work? (muwahaha)

BurntSushi · 2009-09-25 20:03:01

scv5 wrote:

with amarok 2 (i guess that's the version number of the newest in extra), i am now having the problem described here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=78230 regarding taglib-extra, i deleted amarok from /var/cache/pacman/pkg, pacman -Rns the packages and then pacman -Sy'd them again, I still have the error " amarok: error while loading shared libraries: libtag-extras.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I had this particular problem as well. There is a temporary solution here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16338#comment50091.

scv5 · 2009-09-25 21:28:35

AngryKoala wrote:

Just out of curiosity, does oss work? (muwahaha)

it did for a long while, but songbird, kde's volume applet and other apps did not so i switched.

AngryKoala · 2009-09-25 21:35:40

scv5 wrote:

AngryKoala wrote:
Just out of curiosity, does oss work? (muwahaha)
it did for a long while, but songbird, kde's volume applet and other apps did not so i switched.

Have you tried using pulse at all?

kmix doesnt work with oss, you have to use their mixer. Hmmm sorry, I've got nothing else since I switched away from alsa since it kept randomly turning my volume to 250% and giving me heart attacks...my arms were stinking from adrenaline.

Last edited by AngryKoala (2009-09-25 21:35:59)

CaptainHero · 2009-09-25 21:41:54

maybe i should state that i use amarok-2.2 RC1. u might just try the solution BurntSushi offered.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-09-25 13:04:03

rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#2 2009-09-25 13:28:34

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#3 2009-09-25 13:35:49

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#4 2009-09-25 13:42:34

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#5 2009-09-25 13:58:28

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#6 2009-09-25 14:26:16

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#7 2009-09-25 14:55:07

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#8 2009-09-25 16:40:46

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#9 2009-09-25 18:44:11

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#10 2009-09-25 18:45:57

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#11 2009-09-25 19:53:51

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#12 2009-09-25 20:03:01

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#13 2009-09-25 21:28:35

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#14 2009-09-25 21:35:40

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

#15 2009-09-25 21:41:54

Re: rhythmbox/amarok1/amarok/songbird will not work in KDE, but alsa works

Board footer