Amarok woes

[novgrod]

Amarok still plays fine, et cetera but now when it finishes playing a song, it starts going through all the other ones, flashing their titles on the OSD but not playing them. The whole system is non-responsive while it does this and since I have like 5,000 songs, this takes a while.
It had no issues prior to the upgrade. Any thoughts?

[HighHo]

Re: Amarok woes

Sounds like your sound manager has ran out of channels to output them, and therefore skips to the next. In Amarok open the Settings menu Select "Configure Amarok" then "Engine". then check the Output Plugin, Autodetect should be fine but you may wish to try both Alsa and OSS.
The reason you may lose sound after one song maybe due to something like Flash running in a browser window etc. So you may want to see if this issue occurs with nothing else open other than Amarok,

[novgrod]

Re: Amarok woes

No dice. I try switching to ALSA and I am told that Xine can't initialize drivers. I try OSS, and the whole thing crashes.

Is this an issue with the Xine engine or the sound system?

[HighHo]

Re: Amarok woes

I dont have any issues myself, you may also want to try setting some of the options in "System Settings" from the K menu, and then "Sound System".
Try setting Alsa for the Audio device, and things like Full Duplex (allows data to be sent and recived at the same time). Once happy with the setting apply them, the sound system should then restart if this fails leave the settings and reset your PC, and then test amarok again to see if it helps.

[novgrod]

Re: Amarok woes

I already tried that, however I am now thinking this may be a Xine related item, as I see at the end of a song a warning from amarok claiming that Xine is busy.

[linkinstreet]

Re: Amarok woes

I ahve a problem with amarok last night. I tried to play an MP3 file, and it says that it does not support that and asked if I want to install the package. I did and after that it says that MP3 is now supported and I would need to restart Amarok to let it play. but after restarting Amarok it still says that MP3 is not supported. kinda like an infinite loop T.T

[Adrian01]

Re: Amarok woes

I ahve a problem with amarok last night. I tried to play an MP3 file, and it says that it does not support that and asked if I want to install the package. I did and after that it says that MP3 is now supported and I would need to restart Amarok to let it play. but after restarting Amarok it still says that MP3 is not supported. kinda like an infinite loop T.T

I have had a similar problem in the past, and I "fixed" it by deleting (actually I just renamed it) my .xine folder in my home folder.

[novgrod]

Re: Amarok woes

I can try that, and if I only rename the folder, it can't hurt just to try.

[novgrod]

Re: Amarok woes

Well, that didn't work, nor did removing aRts, nor did purging and reinstalling Amarok and Xine, nor did purging and reinstalling ALSA.
Kaffine works fine, VLC works fine, but XMMS, sound in Konqueror, Firefox and the KDE system sounds do not work at all. So, this is turning out to be a real head-scratcher.

I'm currently downloading the Kiubuntu 7.10 desktop CD and we'll see if sound works on that. I figure if the Desktop CD is able to play my sound system with no issues, then this problem would have been caused by the upgrade to Gutsy. If that is the case, then I guess a clean install will fix the problem.

Will report back with the results.