Amarok stopped working

[pwabrahams]

I had Amarok working fine and was able to play music without any problems. However, I wasn't able to play mp3 streams. So I followed some online advice and installed Clementine. Clementine didn't solve the problem either, but it caused Amarok to stop working. I also saw the message "the audio device hda-intel does not work", and was unable to reset it in the phonon settings in System Settings / Multimedia - I kept getting the same message and the test produced no sound.

I tried uninstalling Clementine and reinstalling amarok, but that didn't help.

What might be the cause and cure of all this?

[The Liquidator]

Re: Amarok stopped working

I think that using clementine may (somehow) have messed up your amarok config. I believe if you rename the files containing the name amarok that are in .kde/share/config you should get it going again, but you will need to reconfigure.

On the question of MP3 streaming, my googling suggests that amarok does so with a gstreamer backend which you might not have installed. Having said that there are also reports on the combination of the 2 resulting in crashes.

Again, from googling, VLC appears by all accounts to be a viable alternative for Mp3 streaming

[ubuntuku]

Re: Amarok stopped working

Try this:

sudo apt-get purge clementine
sudo apt-get autoremove
rm $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/phonondevicesrc
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg kubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo shutdown -r now

[pwabrahams]

Streams work under Natty but not under Maverick 10.10

Using Amarok under Natty in a VirtualBox virtual machine, I can play streams via Amarok. But I still can't play them in 10.10 Maverick. When I installed Amarok under Natty, I was given the opportunity to add supporting packages, and that probably made the difference. But I don't remember seeing that under Maverick, and even when I excised Amarok completely and reinstalled it, I wasn't asked about supporting packages.

I suspect now that I'm missing a supporting package -- but which one? I have libxine1, libxine-ffmpeg, and gstreamer0.10-packagekit installed already.

[pwabrahams]

It's a version problem

Apparently there are some version incompatibilities with the supporting software for Amarok, gstreamer in particular. Upgrading KDE to version 4.6.1 solved this for me, though not without some other hiccups.

Version mismatches are the plague of Linux. Only a system maintainer can possibly unravel them.