[Hardy, patch] audacious does not use pulseaudio by default

[Cristian Aravena Romero]

Binary package hint: audacious

Audacious does not use PulseAudio by default yet, which causes problems.

[William Pitcock (nenolod)]

I have a debdiff (above), now to get someone to upload it for me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package audacious - 1.4.4-1ubuntu1

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audacious (1.4.4-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Use pulseaudio as the default Output sink in Audacious. LP: #175536
  * Set Maintainer: to Ubuntu MOTU Media due to unmerged modifications, and
    set XSBC-Original-Maintainer.

 -- William Pitcock <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:07:01 -0600

[Duncan Hawthorne (duncan.hawthorne)]

just tried hardy alpha 6 and it does not use pulse audio by default, it uses alsa output
on version 1.4.6-2ubuntu1

[William Pitcock (nenolod)]

Did you remove your configuration? Obviously if you have an old
configuration it won't use pulse.

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:53 +0000, Josh Smith wrote:
> just tried hardy alpha 6 and it does not use pulse audio by default, it uses alsa output
> on version 1.4.6-2ubuntu1
>

[Duncan Hawthorne (duncan.hawthorne)]

running off a freshly booted live cd for alpha 6. installed audacious as the first thing i do... the audio output is alsa, buffer 500
changing to pulse, and then deleting ~/.config/audacious puts it back to alsa
alsa is definitely the default.

[Duncan Hawthorne (duncan.hawthorne)]

confirmed on another computer too, which had no previous audacious settings

[Duncan Hawthorne (duncan.hawthorne)]

just tried again with freshly installed audacious on an up to date hardy heron, (no ~/.config/audacious directory before install, it appears on first run, so config definitely blank)

still uses alsa, buffer 500 as default, needs to be changed manually to pulse, buffer 300 for any sound playback to happen. which basically means broken by default.

can anyone else confirm this? or tell me that i'm mistaken?

[freddy3980 (freddy3980)]

i can confirm using a fresh install of Hardy RC, doesn't use pulseaudio by default... Another thing that is bothering me is that using pulseaudio plugin in Audacious, changing to the next song is slow, it lags.. this doesn't happen when using alsa... this is really annoying.... hopefully it gets fix soon because 8.04 goes out in two days...

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Bumping the priority, setting milestone.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I've done another approach to patching this, and will upload to intrepid shortly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package audacious - 1.5.0-2ubuntu1

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audacious (1.5.0-2ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * 004-change-default-output-plugin.dpatch:
    Change the default output plugin to pulseaudio. (LP: #175536)
  * Change the Maintainer address.

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Mon, 05 May 2008 12:19:00 +0300

[William Pitcock (nenolod)]

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 09:53 +0000, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> ** Changed in: audacious (Ubuntu Hardy)
> Importance: Undecided => High
> Status: New => In Progress
> Target: None => ubuntu-8.04.1
>

Please do not include this patch in ubuntu-8.04.1. It makes Audacious
unsupportable on Ubuntu from upstream perspective, as it introduces a
condition which may or may not be satisfiable. As such, it is wrong.

I will work on a new patch which is correct. I would like to see the
patch already committed to intrepid undone. I would like to see that
done as soon as possible, as it will result in broken configs,
segfaults, etcetera.

I will keep other comments about this off of this bug as they are
counter-productive. I am completely sure the patch author knows how I
feel by the patch by now.

William

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I'll replace the patch with your new patch, no-one should use Intrepid at the moment, so it's unlikely to cause big problems there..

thanks

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

dropping milestone for hardy, as this is not a blocker for .1. This does not exclude an SRU if an acceptable solution is reached.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Uploaded to hardy-proposed, tested the new patch myself and confirmed that it works.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

damn, the upload had cruft in debian/patches.. should I upload a new version or does it matter?

[William Pitcock (nenolod)]

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 09:47 +0000, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> damn, the upload had cruft in debian/patches.. should I upload a new
> version or does it matter?
>
> ** Changed in: audacious (Ubuntu Hardy)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
>

That cruft will cause a FTBFS. So yes, a new upload is required.

William

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Waiting for motu-sru ack.

[Serious Sven (s-gertsen)]

I can use the pulseaudio plugin which plays the music a notch louder than ALSA or OSS. (it seems that the newer release plays the music less loud).
When I play .WAV files, it starts to jitter, setting the buffer lower or higher doesn't solve it.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Support for another application to use pulseaudio is always a good thing. ACK

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

[Duncan Hawthorne (duncan.hawthorne)]

deleting the folder ~/.config/audacious, then starting audacious correctly sets the output to pulse
the buffer size is set to 500 which is not not what is recommended on the pulse perfect setup (which says 300), however 500 works fine for me
so for me fixed

[Chugajstyr (chugajstyr)]

hmm...when I set Audacious 1.5.0 to use pulseaduio for output, it don`t play nothing, even after deleting ~/.config/audacious. Settings button of pulseaudio is disabled (grey)... Back to Alsa for now. (Kubuntu 8.04, with latest updates).

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Audacious using pulse by default works fine here, using the package in hardy-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.