OpenSuse 11.4 64bit KDE. Overnight Clementine installed from Packman only plays some mp3’s correctly. On others it produces what sounds like water gurgling down a bathtub drain. Other players play them correctly. Run from the CLI the only error that is reported is “Invalid sample rate”, but it shows up even if the mp3 plays correctly. I notice that the Packman version is called “Clementine-unstable” so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve been using the same version for close to a year. Has anybody run into this problem? Could it be a result of an update to pulse audio?
Yes, I am familiar with that problem. IIRC I sorted it by deinstalling various “fluendo” packages. I have not noticed that I could not play something because of that.
That was simple enough. Thank you. By the way I do have vlc installed but it did not show as one of the two options, xine and GStreamer. I noticed that phonon-backend-vlc is not installed. Might this be needed for some other application? I try to not install unnecessarily.
Some time back the devs were muttering about dropping xine in favor of vlc/gstreamer (I think I’m correct on that)
In my recent experience: xine or vlc seem free from the audio issue you describe
FYI: vlc the media player and it’s namesake ‘phonon-backend-vlc’ are not directly required by each other.
I cannot play some mp3’s. I have tried with the xine and gstreamer backends. The vlc backend does not show in the choices. It’s interesting to note that on Clementine’s home download page Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu are supported, and there are links to off-page Slackware, Archlinux and openSuse 11.3 versions but NOT 11.4.
Yes indeed, many times. The <CTL> <ALT> <DEL> keys on my keyboard are now hard to see. Thanks for staying with me on this problem, but truthfully I think it has become wasted effort. The only reason I use Clementine is because Amarok was “improved” to the point where I no longer appreciated all its “features”. I just want something simple to play my music collection. No, I don’t want to see lyrics, album covers, concert schedules, or histories of long dead performers. To this end I have started to map out and write my own application that does just that using simple CLI software that has been around since 8-bit processors. Like mpg123, which has NEVER failed me.
Thanks for letting me rant. I feel so much better now.
Have you tried uninstalling “gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3”? Switching away from Packman to the Update repo seems to do the trick too. No more glrrrreg-glrrrrg here.
ETA: I am using the same configuration as you, btw. Opensuse 11.4, 64bit, KDE
Quodlibet is a nice player too. It has much of the things that you complain about, but you don’t have to use any of it. It can be very straightforward and to the point.
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> ionmich;2458993 Wrote:
>> Yes indeed, many times. The <CTL> <ALT> <DEL> keys on my keyboard are
>> now hard to see. Thanks for staying with me on this problem, but
>> truthfully I think it has become wasted effort. The only reason I use
>> Clementine is because Amarok was “improved” to the point where I no
>> longer appreciated all its “features”. I just want something simple to
>> play my music collection. No, I don’t want to see lyrics, album covers,
>> concert schedules, or histories of long dead performers. To this end I
>> have started to map out and write my own application that does just that
>> using simple CLI software that has been around since 8-bit processors.
>> Like mpg123, which has NEVER failed me.
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>> Thanks for letting me rant. I feel so much better now.
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> Quodlibet is a nice player too. It has much of the things that you
> complain about, but you don’t have to use any of it. It can be very
> straightforward and to the point.
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same thing applies to amarok. i disable the whole middle panel (or
whatever it’s called), and don’t see any of the stuff mentioned as
disturbing. not sure if it’s still being loaded in the background, looking
up websites, etc., but even with the glitz enabled, amarok behaves itself
resource-wise on my machine (openSUSE 12.1 / KDE 4.8.2 / amarok 2.5.0).
It might be worth changing the audio backend to vlc on a system basis - to see if it cures your problem. To do this open phonon and change to backend from gstreamer to vlc.
I assume you mean System Settings>Hardware>Multimedia>Phonon>Backend. The only choices it offers are Xine and GStreamer although vlc is installed and runs normally.
But the good news is that my CLI application to replace Clementine is already in the testing stage, uses very little CPU or memory, starts in a flash and does exactly what I want without all the extra bells and whistles.
GStreamer is working fine on both my computers at the present. I remember also having had those glitch noises occurring from time to time earlier, but those seem to have gone now.
By the way, Clementine isn’t affected by the phonon backend, it uses GStreamer.