Amarok

I am having trouble running amarock. Whenever I try to play a song it says "Xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers" But I am pretty sure I have my drivers installed because my audio card is in Yast. Any ideas?

I am having trouble running amarock. Whenever I try to play a song it says "Xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers" But I am pretty sure I have my drivers installed because my audio card is in Yast. Any ideas?
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Just a thought have you configured Amarok under settings?
and have you added w32codes?

I am having trouble running amarock. Whenever I try to play a song it says "Xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers" But I am pretty sure I have my drivers installed because my audio card is in Yast. Any ideas?
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The problem is known. Search the forum. If I remember correctly, you have to add users to "audio" group.

I am having trouble running amarock. Whenever I try to play a song it says "Xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers" But I am pretty sure I have my drivers installed because my audio card is in Yast. Any ideas?
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Can you provide us any more detail? You note your audio card "is in Yast". Did you test it under YaST? Do you get any sound under YaST? What audio card do you have?

If you get sound under YaST, do you get any sound as regular user SPN ? If you do not get sound as regular user SPN (but do get sound under YaST, then check out the recommendation that you add user SPN to group audio).

If you get sound as regular user SPN, but no sound in Amarok, which sound engine in Amarok do you have selected? What type of sound file are you trying to play? mp3?

Note that Amarok as packaged by Novell/SuSE comes crippled and will not play mp3 without the addition of 3rd party applications. Typically only Real Player will play mp3 on the "as installed" Novell/SuSE distribution. Most SuSE users will install the Packman packaged version of libxine1 (and NOT the Novell/SuSE version) and then select xine as the sound engine under amarok. Typically only then, after using the Packman packaged libxine as the Amarok sound engine, will amarok play mp3.

Anyway, please consider the above questions, and provide more information. Apologies for all the questions, but like many of us, I have to ask such questions because I lost my crystal ball in the last stock market crash. :lol:

I tested my sound card in yast and it did nothing. What's strange is that when I first installed suse it worked fine.
I'll try some of the things you mentioned, and see how that works out.

I tested my sound card in yast and it did nothing. [/b]

If your sound does not work in YaST, then everything else I recommended probably does not apply.

Get your sound working either in YaST, or run something like alsaconf to get it running. Then after you get it running, you can try the other recommendations I suggested.

What's strange is that when I first installed suse it worked fine. [/b]

What have you changed since then? When did it work last?

my amarok plays mp3 well but i have problems with real audio files. before i installed the libxine1 from packman, it played real files but not mp3s but after installing it, it reversed. it can play mp3s but no real files....anyone who can help me out...thanks in advance.

my amarok plays mp3 well but i have problems with real audio files. before i installed the libxine1 from packman, it played real files but not mp3s but after installing it, it reversed. it can play mp3s but no real files....[/b]

Which version of RealPlayer are you using? The current version available as an rpm for SuSE is Real Player 10.0.8.

I highly doubt that installing the libxine1 from Packman would stop your real player from working. If indeed it no longer works for mp3's, it is likely you did something else to your PC.

As for playing "real media" files, I myself prefer to use "mplayer" (available from Packman). Guru is also packaging the new "smplayer" front end to "mplayer", which works very good.

Which version of RealPlayer are you using? The current version available as an rpm for SuSE is Real Player 10.0.8.

I highly doubt that installing the libxine1 from Packman would stop your real player from working. If indeed it no longer works for mp3's, it is likely you did something else to your PC.

As for playing "real media" files, I myself prefer to use "mplayer" (available from Packman). Guru is also packaging the new "smplayer" front end to "mplayer", which works very good.
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real player can play those files but amarok doesnot .........i like amarok . it would be great if it could play my files using single player a good one like amarok. is there any way i can use the plugins of real players with amarok and xine?

real player can play those files but amarok doesnot .........i like amarok . it would be great if it could play my files using single player a good one like amarok. is there any way i can use the plugins of real players with amarok and xine?
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We are getting VERY far off topic, where SPN initially noted difficulty to run amarok.

Reference your real media (under xine) request, take a look at the xine faq (on their web page):
http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#AEN354

From which I quote:

Real Network files/streams
Can I watch Real (.rm, .ram) files using xine?

The situation with real files and streams is pretty similar to the situation with Quicktime Streams (see above). The newer real audio and video formats are only supported by using binary-only codecs which are not included in xine.

Possibly the most convenient way to get the Real codecs is to download them from the MPlayer website http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html . The package is called "essential". Unpack it and move everything you find inside to /usr/lib/codecs and set the decoder.external.real_codecs_path in your xine config file to /usr/lib/codecs (actually you can place them anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your home directory, but then you'll have to set decoder.external.real_codecs_path accordingly). Restart xine then and you should be able to watch Real files/streams. [/b]

When I searched for "essential" on that page, I did not find anything. But its possible if one has the Packman mplayer already installed, then the advice that might work is to "set the decoder.external.real_codecs_path in your xine config file to /usr/lib/codecs". I have not tried this myself, so I do not know if it would work.