[GRLUG] Sound issues

[Bob Kline]

Probably not a bad idea anyway...

    -- Bob


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Lijewski, Scott A <ScottL at mmcwm.com> wrote:

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> Scott Lijewski
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> Applications Developer
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> *From:* grlug-bounces at grlug.org [mailto:grlug-bounces at grlug.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Bob Kline
> *Sent:* Monday, June 21, 2010 2:20 PM
> *To:* grlug at grlug.org
> *Subject:* [GRLUG] Sound issues
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> A while back I mention that I am
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> having problems with the sound
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> system under Kubuntu 10.04.
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> While playing a long list of tunes,
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> using Amarok, it just quits, usually
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> between track.
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> I did a little digging, and apparently
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> there's been a total rewrite of Amarok,
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> after version 1.4.  So while 2.30 looks
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> more up to date, and hopefully more
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> bug free, than 1.4, it ain't necessarily
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> so.
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> Some pundits are claiming that the
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> rewrite is a significant step backwards
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> from 1.4, which seemed to work well
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> enough in my experience.  Features
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> like random track selection are now
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> gone, if only temporarily.
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> One apparent pundit was sufficiently
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> ticked that he rolled his own player:
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> http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/features_en.php
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> I did find a hack to get around the
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> sound system quitting without a reboot:
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> alsa force-reload
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> I make sure to quit Amarok before
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> running.
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> Anyway,  Amarok might be a case of
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> "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."  Version
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> 2.3.1 has recently been announced.
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> Maybe that will fix some of the more
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> annoying issues.  But suffice it to say
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> that there a world of grousing out there.
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>    -- Bob
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