I have to admit the work that is going into Amarok 2 is great, one big problem I seem to have with it is it does not like to share the sound system even when it is idling after being used. I don’t know if it is a Amarok2 <-> dumuxing problem or Phonon <-> dumuxing problem but I can launch Amarok2 and let it sit and idle and I still have sound throughout the whole system, I tell Amarok2 to play a song then all of a sudden the only thing that has access to the sound device is Amarok2 even if I tell it to stop playing. To only way to restore sound to the whole system is by closing out of Amarok2. Does anyone else here have this same problem, any know workarounds that I should be made aware of, and bug report for this problem?
Some openSUSE sound concepts:
Sound-concepts - openSUSE
Please note that up until pulse-audio/phonon implementation, that one feature of ALSA (not available in OSS) is ALSA allows device sharing by several applications. This is only true if one is using the ALSA API.
You could try switching Amarok to use the xine sound engine. This will only work if you are using the Packman packaged Amarok with the Packman packaged libxine1 (instead of Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged xine-lib) and Packman packaged “mad”. And you then need to go to your other players and set their audio output module to use “alsa” and not use aRts (nor ESD, nor gstreamer). As noted, the alsa API will allow sound device sharing.
I do not have a good handle yet on the practical implementation of phonon here.
I have no problem with the stable version of Amarok from Packman other than it locking up on me randomly. This problem is pointed at Amarok2 or phonon or both and I was asking if it is known problem, problem with my configuration some how, the only way I can find to configure phonon is by selecting ether Xine or Gstreamer backend and thats it, or if it is a known problem, or if I should report it as a new problem.
I’m having the same problem. Amarok2 uses GStreamer phonon by default, which for whatever reason can’t use the sound device (Gets some error). So, I installed xine phonon, which works, but doesn’t seem to output pulseaudio, since it only works when no other applications use sound, and when I open an application that uses sound while amarok2 is running, then that program doesn’t get sound.
quadomatic wrote:
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> I’m having the same problem. Amarok2 uses GStreamer phonon by default,
> which for whatever reason can’t use the sound device (Gets some error).
> So, I installed xine phonon, which works, but doesn’t seem to output
> pulseaudio, since it only works when no other applications use sound,
> and when I open an application that uses sound while amarok2 is running,
> then that program doesn’t get sound.
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This problem seems to be fixed with the latest updates of KDE 4.1.x and all the extra apps.
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