amarok fails to play alternate tracks

[Kunir]

Binary package hint: amarok

amarok fails to play any track in playlist other then the very first one. Probably "fails to play" is not very accurate, since the progress bar keeps on advancing and it changes track as well, but there is not sound. Few times a system notification pops up saying audio playback device does not work. If amarok is restarted sound comes back and first track plays fine, but second track again fails to play.

Alsa-info is attached

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 24 11:39:42 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/amarok
Package: amarok 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: amarok
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2467): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Kunir (ashish15ad)]

attaching screen capture of system notification about issue with audio device

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Should work in 10.10+ as everything is using PulseAudio, which ought to prevent such locking issues.