MP3 Problem

Hello. I have SuSE 9.3 and after the instalation i had mp3 running without
any problems. I usually used amarok or xmms. A few days ago, after I
uninstalled some apps, mp3 just stopped working. If i try to use amarok he
simply runs the entire playlist in a few seconds. As does juk or kaboodle.
I've tryied every media player possible! xmms doesn't even opens the mp3
file. I must have screwed up something, but i really don't know what.
I've run the ALSA config and I test the sound successfully. I'm also able
to hear CDs and every sound of the OS.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:

> any problems. I usually used amarok or xmms. A few days ago, after I
> uninstalled some apps, mp3 just stopped working. If i try to use amarok he
> simply runs the entire playlist in a few seconds. As does juk or kaboodle.

I run 10.0 x86_64. I'm not sure if there might be other reasons for that
behavior, but I know what does that here. I have my mp3s stored on an
external drive, attached via usb. If I forget to turn on the power for the
drive or turn it on too late in the boot sequence, the system doesn't
recognize the drive.

In order of what works best to what works less well, here's what works here.
Restarting the computer, with the drive running always fixes the problem.
Ending your session & relogging in to a new session often fixes it. Once
in awhile, after you're into kde (or whatever), shutting the drive off &
back on will get it recognized.

If you're using a separate drive for storage, I'd check the drive, power
connections & cabling. If you're using an existing partition that
otherwise is recognized, then maybe some of the sound dependencies were
also uninstalled & need to be reinstalled.

HTH

Bill K

fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:
> Hello. I have SuSE 9.3 and after the instalation i had mp3 running without
> any problems. I usually used amarok or xmms. A few days ago, after I
> uninstalled some apps, mp3 just stopped working. If i try to use amarok he
> simply runs the entire playlist in a few seconds. As does juk or kaboodle.
> I've tryied every media player possible! xmms doesn't even opens the mp3
> file. I must have screwed up something, but i really don't know what.
> I've run the ALSA config and I test the sound successfully. I'm also able
> to hear CDs and every sound of the OS.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks

It sounds like you might have uninstalled your mad libraries. What do
you get when you run the following command in a console?

rpm -qa |grep mad

--
sktsee

> fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:
> > Hello. I have SuSE 9.3 and after the instalation i had mp3 running without
> > any problems. I usually used amarok or xmms. A few days ago, after I
> > uninstalled some apps, mp3 just stopped working. If i try to use amarok he
> > simply runs the entire playlist in a few seconds. As does juk or kaboodle.
> > I've tryied every media player possible! xmms doesn't even opens the mp3
> > file. I must have screwed up something, but i really don't know what.
> > I've run the ALSA config and I test the sound successfully. I'm also able
> > to hear CDs and every sound of the OS.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> It sounds like you might have uninstalled your mad libraries. What do
> you get when you run the following command in a console?
>
> rpm -qa |grep mad
>
> --
> sktsee

Thank you both for the help.

When i run that commmand i get
kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0
mad-0.15.1b-31

i've read some other post about mp3 problems where the "mad" package was
refered. I re-installed
kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
mad-0.15.1b-31.i586.rpm
kdemultimedia3-sound-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
just in case but didn't notice any changes. I also found out that i can
hear .mpc without any problems.

Don't really know what to do... i'm considering a full system
re-instalation. I've also tryied a repair booting the Suse 9.3 DVD.
Feel free to email me.

Thanks,

fredd

> > fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:
> > > Hello. I have SuSE 9.3 and after the instalation i had mp3 running
without
> > > any problems. I usually used amarok or xmms. A few days ago, after I
> > > uninstalled some apps, mp3 just stopped working. If i try to use
amarok he
> > > simply runs the entire playlist in a few seconds. As does juk or
kaboodle.
> > > I've tryied every media player possible! xmms doesn't even opens the mp3
> > > file. I must have screwed up something, but i really don't know what.
> > > I've run the ALSA config and I test the sound successfully. I'm also able
> > > to hear CDs and every sound of the OS.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > It sounds like you might have uninstalled your mad libraries. What do
> > you get when you run the following command in a console?
> >
> > rpm -qa |grep mad
> >
> > --
> > sktsee
>
> Thank you both for the help.
>
> When i run that commmand i get
> kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0
> mad-0.15.1b-31
>
> i've read some other post about mp3 problems where the "mad" package was
> refered. I re-installed
> kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
> mad-0.15.1b-31.i586.rpm
> kdemultimedia3-sound-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
> just in case but didn't notice any changes. I also found out that i can
> hear .mpc without any problems.
>
> Don't really know what to do... i'm considering a full system
> re-instalation. I've also tryied a repair booting the Suse 9.3 DVD.
> Feel free to email me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> fredd
>
Well, on a completely desperate move, I instaled RealPlayer and the mp3
worked perfectly! Now i just have to make another app work aswell... i
really don't like RealPlayer
Thanks

fredd

fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:
>>fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:
>>
>>>Hello. I have SuSE 9.3 and after the instalation i had mp3 running without
>>>any problems. I usually used amarok or xmms. A few days ago, after I
>>>uninstalled some apps, mp3 just stopped working. If i try to use amarok he
>>>simply runs the entire playlist in a few seconds. As does juk or kaboodle.
>>>I've tryied every media player possible! xmms doesn't even opens the mp3
>>>file. I must have screwed up something, but i really don't know what.
>>>I've run the ALSA config and I test the sound successfully. I'm also able
>>>to hear CDs and every sound of the OS.
>>>
>>>Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>
>>It sounds like you might have uninstalled your mad libraries. What do
>>you get when you run the following command in a console?
>>
>>rpm -qa |grep mad
>>
>>--
>>sktsee
>
>
> Thank you both for the help.
>
> When i run that commmand i get
> kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0
> mad-0.15.1b-31
>
> i've read some other post about mp3 problems where the "mad" package was
> refered. I re-installed
> kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
> mad-0.15.1b-31.i586.rpm
> kdemultimedia3-sound-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
> just in case but didn't notice any changes. I also found out that i can
> hear .mpc without any problems.
>
> Don't really know what to do... i'm considering a full system
> re-instalation. I've also tryied a repair booting the Suse 9.3 DVD.
> Feel free to email me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> fredd
>
>

I see that you have some packages loaded from the packman repository.
Are there any of SuSE versions of the same packages available? I run
pretty much stock distribution so I don't know how well the packman
versions work in regard to preserving dependencies. From what I gather,
they work pretty well, but when you mix-n-match packages from different
sources, there's an increased chance of introducing some instability in
to the system. I'd try to go with SuSE versions, if possible, to rule
out problems arising from the packman packages.

Here's what I got as far as mad libraries:
libtunepimp-mad-0.3.0-6
kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.0-14
mad-0.15.1b-31
python-mad-0.5.1-95
xmms-lib-mad-1.2.10-68 *You need this installed to play mp3 in xmms
mad-devel-0.15.1b-31
k3b-mad-0.11.22-3
gstreamer-plugins-extra-mad-0.8.8-13
bmp-plugins-mad-0.9.7-10

You also might try the console mp3 player, mp3blaster to see test
whether the problem is global, or just affects GUI players.

--
sktsee

fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:

> Well, on a completely desperate move, I instaled RealPlayer and the mp3
> worked perfectly! Now i just have to make another app work aswell... i
> really don't like RealPlayer
> Thanks

I'm not sure about xmms, but the SUSE 10.0 version of amarok (1.3, I think)
gives you a choice of audio engines. Default install used the helix
engine. YAST "upgraded my box from helix to the same version of
RealPlayer. ;-) Suddenly no sound & RealPlayer's engine was not added as a
choice. So, I switched to the xine engine. Works fine. Maybe that'll
work for you?

Bill K

> fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:
> >>fernando.moreira@fe.up.pt wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello. I have SuSE 9.3 and after the instalation i had mp3 running without
> >>>any problems. I usually used amarok or xmms. A few days ago, after I
> >>>uninstalled some apps, mp3 just stopped working. If i try to use amarok he
> >>>simply runs the entire playlist in a few seconds. As does juk or kaboodle.
> >>>I've tryied every media player possible! xmms doesn't even opens the mp3
> >>>file. I must have screwed up something, but i really don't know what.
> >>>I've run the ALSA config and I test the sound successfully. I'm also able
> >>>to hear CDs and every sound of the OS.
> >>>
> >>>Any thoughts?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>
> >>It sounds like you might have uninstalled your mad libraries. What do
> >>you get when you run the following command in a console?
> >>
> >>rpm -qa |grep mad
> >>
> >>--
> >>sktsee
> >
> >
> > Thank you both for the help.
> >
> > When i run that commmand i get
> > kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0
> > mad-0.15.1b-31
> >
> > i've read some other post about mp3 problems where the "mad" package was
> > refered. I re-installed
> > kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
> > mad-0.15.1b-31.i586.rpm
> > kdemultimedia3-sound-3.4.2-11.pm.0.i586.rpm
> > just in case but didn't notice any changes. I also found out that i can
> > hear .mpc without any problems.
> >
> > Don't really know what to do... i'm considering a full system
> > re-instalation. I've also tryied a repair booting the Suse 9.3 DVD.
> > Feel free to email me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > fredd
> >
> >
>
> I see that you have some packages loaded from the packman repository.
> Are there any of SuSE versions of the same packages available? I run
> pretty much stock distribution so I don't know how well the packman
> versions work in regard to preserving dependencies. From what I gather,
> they work pretty well, but when you mix-n-match packages from different
> sources, there's an increased chance of introducing some instability in
> to the system. I'd try to go with SuSE versions, if possible, to rule
> out problems arising from the packman packages.
>
> Here's what I got as far as mad libraries:
> libtunepimp-mad-0.3.0-6
> kdemultimedia3-mad-3.4.0-14
> mad-0.15.1b-31
> python-mad-0.5.1-95
> xmms-lib-mad-1.2.10-68 *You need this installed to play mp3 in xmms
> mad-devel-0.15.1b-31
> k3b-mad-0.11.22-3
> gstreamer-plugins-extra-mad-0.8.8-13
> bmp-plugins-mad-0.9.7-10
>
> You also might try the console mp3 player, mp3blaster to see test
> whether the problem is global, or just affects GUI players.
>
> --
> sktsee


I've now been able to put mp3 working on xmms. I unistalled everything,
including sound libraries e instaled them back using kpackage that, unlike
yast, showed me unsatisfied dependencies.
I've not been able to use amarok. i can't install the aRts engine. using
aKode or xine, amarok run an entire playlist in just a few seconds. And no
soud is played. Unfortunatly i'm a bit swamped with work, so i can't spend
a lot of time solving this, but the essencial is achieved. mp3 up and running!

Thanks for all the help