No playback when .asoundrc is in place

[Martin Emrich]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

(gutsy, amd64)

Since a few days, I have a cheapo 5.1 sound system which connects its 6 channels via 3 phone plugs. As music is normally played only via the front channels (leaving the subwoofer silent), I found a nice .asoundrc at http://www.linux-sound.info/alsa/configs/ for my intel8x0-compatible AC97 soundcard.

Since I installed it, Rhythmbox won't play music anymore, but displays a little "wrong way" symbol next to each song I try. XMMS, mplayer and vdr continue to work with no problems, using the 5.1 upmix script.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Here is my .asoundrc

Ciao

Martin

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Does "gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file///to/music" play it correctly?

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

martin@garrett:~$ LANG=C gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///home/martin/testsong.mp3
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstAudioSinkClock
Caught interrupt -- handling interrupt.
Interrupt: Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Execution ended after 3912222000 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...

Works, and it sounds like it uses the upmix channel.

Ciao

Martin

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does using the upmix channel is correct?

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Yes, sound is coming from all speakers and it sounds good.

The bug affects totem, too, so if they use the same backend, the bug should IMHO be reassigned there.

Ciao

Martin

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Reassigning to gstreamer0.10 which is used by rhythmbox and totem and subscribing the ubuntu-audio team. I don't know if the alsa changes are correct, could be an user configuration issue, or due to alsa or to gstreamer

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Any news on this bug? I just tried rhythmbox again today, this time with debug on. Attached is the output when I try to play a song.

Ciao

Martin

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no, you are the only one to have a such issue, maybe your asoundrc configuration is not correct

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream would like have a better idea on the issue, you could try opening a bug on bugzilla.gnome.org

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Good news for me, bad news for this bug:

Today, I got my new Mainboard/CPU/RAM, (Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H), and with the new soundcard ("HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB"), all problems are gone. ALSA ignores my .asoundrc, rhythmbox works again, I have sound on all channels, and I have a "Software Mixer" control that controls all channels in a uniform manner. I am happy :)

FYI: The old board was an ASRock 939Dual-Sata2, with onboard AC97 sound (Realtek RTL850 or something like that).

I am sorry for not being more helpful, but as the old board is lying on the shelf for now, I cannot do any more tests.

Ciao

Martin

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's alright, closing the bug since it works for you now and nobody else has ran into that yet, feel free to reopen if you get the issue again though