Getting hopeless on Hoary sound problems

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:22:53 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I've had loads of trouble with RealPlayer on Hoary.
> On a "default" array6 install it installed and worked perectly (on my
> box) - since then (and leading up to then) I've had nothing but the same
> hangs or the occasional appearing on the screen several minutes after I
> tried to invoke it.
> I do hope the problem gets sorted in time for the final release of Hoary
> - (cus listening to the BBC while I'm doing stuff is kind of a
> fundamental necessity for me. The voice of sanity and all that...)

The suggestion just made a few minutes ago to make auto_spawn=1 in 
/etc/esound/esd.conf work wonders and fixed a whole series of
problems. Give it a try.
> 
> I've also had endless (similar) problems with beep-media-player & xmms.
> Rhythmbox works but it's so ugly and boxy that it hurts to look at. (IMO)

Yes, Rhythmbox ain't pretty, but I like how it works with gnome. I've
been trying it for a few weeks to see if I can get used to it. It's
easier to set up for my wife and kids when they want to play their
iTunes playlists on Linux. I use slimserver to stream from  Windows to
Linux. I can shave a step or two off the process of getting connected
to this stream (compared with XMMS) by just adding the stream URL as a
radio station.
> 
> regards
> 
> David
> 
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