Re: Opensuse 11.4 no sound and Amarok not playing tracks (Discussion closed)

Am Fr, 11 Mär 2011 16:03:14 CET schrieb Ralph DeWitt:

> > hello,
> > this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for
> > general help. see opensuse list or any forum.

I don't agree.

> > That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted

You can try pavumixer, when amarok is _running_. Play with alsa,
pulseaudio-settings in Amarok. Did you try the Packman-version? the
default-version doesn't support mp3 since years, because of
worldwide legal issues.

> Thanks for your help. But the mixer is not muted.

I think you cannot be sure, if you have more than 1 soundcard! I was
fooled a while ago with an usb-headset, which uses a wrong route by
default (probably).

> Now I suggest that
> you change the list topic to limit the discussion to multimedia
> creation only in http://lists.opensuse.org as it currently
> says:opensuse-multimedia     English "Discussion about multimedia in
> the openSUSE distribution"  I feel my asking for help with a broken
> Amarok (multimedia application) and a broken sound system sub
> component is with in the current guide lines of this list. But in
> order to avoide conflict I will take this problem to another list.

This is a good idea, not because I think it is OT here, this list has
very low traffic, normally I read this list only and post to the German
multimedia-list, which has very low traffic too. BTW I was pointed to
the German multimedia-list from the general list with similar
questions. So don't care.

Did you try similar apps?

Have a look at Clementine, which is an Amarok 1 clone and gmpc with
mpd, which is my fave. Deadbeef seems not be available till now for
11.4.

> And I wiil remember the unfrendlyness of this distributions mailing
> lists when I begin the process of looking for another distribution.

Such things can happen in any list. Especially because this list has so
low traffic, I don't understand this meaning. Choose your distro
depending on your needs and which things work, there is no perfect
distro. At least Opensuse belongs to the fastest. If I compare Opensuse
with Ubuntu, Opensuse gets 51% and Ubuntu 49% when I have to choose,
both have problems, which must be solved. I recommend to reserve 4
partitions (15GB) for different distros (+4 for /boot with 200MB each),
so you can test 2 distros and keep the old one, if a new one doesn't
work. Especially for multimedia this is very recommended and hard
drives are very big nowadays.

Al