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?

 

[Ravnos]

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?

 

[DemonStar55]

hmm.... *hears music, checks player, checks ubuntu version* works for me


do you have all the gstreamer packages and xine engine installed?


http://kubuntu.org/announcements/amarok-1.4.php might help

 

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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...

 

[Ravnos]

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.

 

[nickspoon]

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.

 

[Ravnos]

I was under the impression that Amarok used ALSA.

 

[DemonStar55]

I was under the impression that Amarok used ALSA.

works with both