Amarok nightmare!

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I was a happy Amarok (2.4.3) user until I left my computer unattended with a friend. The next morning Amarok produced no sound at all. Not even with ogg files, so I know it is not a decoder problem. In the settings I use gstreamer as the default engine, and when I test the sound card it remains silent.

If I use totem or timidity I can still play my music. I use KDE 4.7.2. and I never had problems with Amarok before apart from not being able to use it along with Musescore. When I run it from xterm it spits our (among other stuff)


QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver

at a rate one line per sec.

Any help would be appreciated,

  • pascal
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Same issue with me. Amarok 2.4.3 worked fine with all file types. Then I got Amarok 2.5.0 installed along with KDE 4.8.0 (from the 12.1 /48/ repository) and have no sound with any file type, even .ogg (so, as pligdas says, this is not a decoder problem and anyway I have all the relevant proprietary codecs installed). I can play audio files with Kaffeine and Realplayer with no problems, it’s just Amarok 2.5.0 which is silent. Sound is definitely OK with everything except Amarok. Repeat, this is not because I do not have installed codecs. Is this a known issue with Amarok 2.5.0? Are there any settings which need changing? (I can’t find any which look relevant.)
Help appreciated. Regards.

PS. Unlike pligdas, I use Xine.

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Forgot to add that I also changed to the Packman version of Amarok 2.5.0 but still have the same complete silence.

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:26:02 +0530, PingooseCovert
<PingooseCovert@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Same issue with me. Amarok 2.4.3 worked fine with all file types. Then I
> got Amarok 2.5.0 installed along with KDE 4.8.0 (from the 12.1 /48/
> repository) and have no sound with any file type, even .ogg (so, as
> pligdas says, this is not a decoder problem and anyway I have all the
> relevant proprietary codecs installed). I can play audio files with
> Kaffeine and Realplayer with no problems, it’s just Amarok 2.5.0 which
> is silent. Sound is definitely OK with everything except Amarok. Repeat,
> this is not because I do not have installed codecs. Is this a known
> issue with Amarok 2.5.0? Are there any settings which need changing? (I
> can’t find any which look relevant.)
> Help appreciated. Regards.
>

no idea what’s happening to you guys. i’ve also got amarok 2.5 with KDE
4.8, and it works fine.

do you have pavucontrol installed? that’s a pulse audio mixer application
that often helps me (con)figure (out) what’s happening with my sound. some
settings available in pavucontrol aren’t available in other mixers,
including kmix.

–
phani.

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Works fine here
Try switching to vlc or xine backend
Restart the sound

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If you have pavucontrol
Open amarok and try to play audio
open pavucontrol then you will see amarok in the playback option
then choose the audio output that will work for amarok

If nothing shows-up the problem is somewhere.

I have amarok 2.5.0 in opensuse 12.1 kde 4.8 and works

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Thanks phani for the pointer. It, indirectly, solved my problem. Apparently, my friend had set the volume to zero, instead of just hitting <SPACE> to pause the playback as I would have done, to listen to a Musescore piece and it would heave remained there for ever had it not been for your post.

I always adjust the volume by the touch LED bar of my Pavillion while keeping each player’s volume controls, rather unintuitive in the case of Amarok BTW, set to max. Of course, I checked for muted sound, but the idea of someone setting the volume all the way to zero manually never occurred to me.:open_mouth:

Thanks for adding the tip.

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If you have pavucontrol
Open amarok and try to play audio
open pavucontrol then you will see amarok in the playback option
then choose the audio output that will work for amarok

If nothing shows-up the problem is somewhere.

I have amarok 2.5.0 in opensuse 12.1 kde 4.8 and works

Amarok doesn’t show up in pavucontrol playback option when playing audio with Amarok. ‘Explains’ (in one sense) why there is no sound. But any ideas why Amarok isn’t showing up?
Thanks.

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Hi,

I think it is hard to try to explain it precisely.
These problems may differ on how different users manages their applications.
It could be coming from an audio backened with missing plugin to fully integrate with pulseaudio
or installed applications from broken repositories, a bug etc.
Correct me if I am wrong, one problem can have a good answer with a good supply of
information to the audience.

I am not a multimedia expert but only know some, just to get me out from multimedia woes.
Coming from xfce, I only restarted to use kde on a daily basis when kde4.8 was release.
For this I don’t use amarok as my default audio player but audacious and still uses xfce
multimedia applications to configure my multimedia setup inside kde.

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OK. Thanks.
I have solved the silent Amarok 2.5.0 issue by changing the backend to gstreamer. It seems that this latest version of Amarok, at least as I have it on 12.1 with KDE 4.8, doesn’t like the xine backend even though I have installed all the plugins I can find.

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That’s good, you were able to find the missing link.
Glad that you posted how were you able to make it work.

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apparently as the xine plug-in is not being actively maintained support for the backend has been dropped by amarok. shame as it was my preferred backend.