Argh! Need An Alternative To Amarok !!!


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Apparently AmaroK has a known bug that prevents it from working with my ubuntu Dapper installation. I had it working perfectly with breezy badger but now that reinstalled with a fresh release of dapper, it won't give me sound. I have read like a million posts of other people with the same problem and it seems that they dropped xine support until a new version of xine is out :-( so either I stay with xmms now and miss out on the database fun or find an appropriate alternative. Any suggestions? I tried to compile "Listen" for my system since there is only a package for i386 available and I have an AMD64 system, but it won't compile. Is there another program which is any good?
 
Is the version in Ubuntu's repository the latest version? If not, have you tried compiling the latest version of Amarok from scratch? Or compiling the latest SVN version?
 
Well I have amarok-xine and amarok installed, the gstreamer packages, too. And a lot of people on the internet have told me that this is a known bug for many. For some it works but for others it won't. I have version 1.4 installed now, and 1.39 before... both didn't work under dapper but worked like a charm under breezy.

tried the package from the repository in the posts above... now I have got the same error message as usual. It tells me that xine cannot initialize any drivers...
 
From that same link: "Amarok 1.4 can not easily be supported on Kubuntu 5.10 (breezy) because it needs a newer version of taglib."

Why not try an older version? I found a Debian repository here that should work with Ubuntu. It also has a newer version of taglib which newer Amarak versions apparently need.
 
Could be a problem with OSS drivers, it happened to me on MPlayer (Dapper). To fix it, I did:

modprobe snd_mixer_oss
modprobe snd_pcm_oss

See if that works.
 
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