No sound - no help

[Harald Eiermann]

Binary package hint: amarok

Well, there are similar problems around, i.e. I hear no music although pressing the test button in sound system configuration gives me the sounds.

So the bug, IMHO, is maybe not that there is a missconfiguration.
The bug is that I have no opportunity to see why.
Does it try to connect to the pulse audio server or are there missing rights to access /dev/dsp - nothing.

The error message which appears sometimes and saying something like "Too many errors in playlist ..." (well, I get it in german) is not really helpful, to tell the truth, it is not helpful at all.

So IMHO this is a serious bug of the usability.

BTW, I use Ubuntu 9.10

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 28 21:29:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/amarok
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: amarok 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-server
SourcePackage: amarok
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-server x86_64
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3309): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Ludo Smith (ludosmith-gmail)]

I had silent Amarok (Fresh install of Karmic 9.10 + Amarok V2.2.0). On pressing play the progress bar moved from left to right in 1 second and no sound came out. Installed package 'libxine-ffmpeg' and it now works.

[Manuel (mbestler)]

I can confirm the bug and the fix. Works perfect after installing the 'libxime1-ffmpeg' package via apt/synaptic. This should be listed as a dependency in the amarok package.