Amarok radio listening headaches

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Sat Nov 1 17:59:14 UTC 2008


On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>
>>> try set this in your environment
>>>
>>> export FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"
>>>
>>> or FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" firefox
>>>
>>> to check if it works
>>>
>>> regards
>>
>> What do you mean by environment? How or where do you set that?
>>
>>
>
> Firefox checks the environment variable FIREFOX_DSP which can be set
> to 'aoss', that would activate the alsa oss wrapper for applications that
> want to access /dev/dsp
>
> This way you can play flash and other sounds coming through firefox and use
> other sound players like amarok, xmms or whatever synchronously, presumably
> your alsa system is configured properly.
>
> regards

But what does that have to do with Amarok failing with networked
playing? It works fine with playing files on the HD.
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Douglas E Knapp

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