Amarok 2 kills sound for other apps

[Julian Edwards]

I updated to Jaunty and now after I play a track in Amarok2 I can no longer get audio from other applications. aplay/ogg123 both hang on the command line.

Please bring back Amarok 1, Amarok 2 is the KDE4.0 of music players. I'd rather it was KDE4.2.

[janl (janl)]

AOL.

It appears that amarok2 opens alsa by default. IF I open flash-player in firefox first, then amarok2 then I get a notify that ALSA is not available, falling back to pulse audio.

There does not appear to be a way to make amarok2 prefer pulseaudio.

Nicolai

[janl (janl)]

The notification is from amarok2 - through kde notification service.

[Timo Wiren (timo-wiren)]

Just reporting that I have the same problem. Sound doesn't work in Flash or MPlayer if Amarok2 is running. My sound chip is Intel HDA.

[Haakon Nilsen (haakonn)]

Same here, also Intel HDA. Very annoying.

[janl (janl)]

Workaround: make sure that every f***ing app uses pulse. Now it works. Amarok, flash and sound effects in kde.

A scratch install may also work as workaround.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

A workaround does not make a bug invalid. These sound systems should not be opening sound devices for exclusive access.

BTW, my workaround was: apt-get purge pulseaudio

[janl (janl)]

This was solved a few releases back. Dunno if it's still a problem in any supported LTS. Close?

[Haakon Nilsen (haakonn)]

Can't speak for every supported LTS, but I haven't encountered this problem for a very long time, probably years (now on 12.04). Perhaps the problem is technically still there, but PA is more ubiquitous and reliable now. Support close.