Amarok 2.2/1.4

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Lisi,

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 15:32, Lisi <lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 November 2009 11:23:43 Lisi wrote:
>> Hi, Myriam
>>
>> On Thursday 26 November 2009 09:10:35 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 23:51, Lisi <lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Kubuntu Karmic -
>> > >
>> > > Amarok 2.2 keeps crashing, is difficult to persuade that it should play
>> > > the whole of a CD.
>> >
>> > Please see my answer in the KDE forum this morning.
>>
>> Yes - I'm sorry, that was a little too near to crossposting.  (Not 24 hours
>> between them, and related questions.)
>>
>> > [snip loads of erudite and very useful advice]
>>
>> Following your advice, I have installed Amarok 2.2.1 from the Karmic
>> backports.  All went well and I shall stress-test Amarok 2.2.1 this
>> afternoon.
>
> Sadly, Amarok is now even worse.  At least before I could persuade it to play
> something and even it sometimes didn't crash, now it won't play a CD at
> all.  :-(

Then something is wrong with your installation. Please check that you
have indeed a default Phonon installation with the xine backend.
It works perfectly well here with version 2.2.1, running Kubuntu 9.10.

Don't hesitate to drop into our support channel #amarok on
irc.freenode.net, I am sure that this is a solvable issue.

> I am a long time fan of Amarok, but I have clearly got to go on a CD player
> hunt.  :-(  (This is for someone else, not me.  I myself use KDE 3.5.10 on
> Lenny with Amarok 1.4.10, and I have obviously got to hang onto them for as
> long as possible.)
>
> Perhaps Rythmbox, which I think is the default in Ubuntu Karmic?

Which will drag in a lot of Gnome dependencies, like Pulseaudio, which
will most likely kill your sound in KDE altogether.... But if you
prefer to give up that fast, your choice.

I can only repeat the above, it works, and it should work for you,
unless you have some strange sound settings preventing you from
playing a CD with Amarok.


Regards, Myriam.

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