Amarok on suse sound problem?
 

I just installed suse 10.0 yesterday and everything seems to be working great except amarok whenever amarok switches to another song my pcm control drops 75% I'm using the helix-pluggin anyone else having this problem?

Yeah I have too.
when using amarok it seems like my songs slow down to crawl. I am using Suse 9.1.

Im new to Linux so I couldn't offer any help. All I can do is keep on with my learning process.:D

Re: Amarok on suse sound problem?
 

You hare lucky, my pcm control drops 0% any time, I'm using too the helix-pluggins... :(

It is related with the helix-pluggin and realplayer. If you start realplayer while amarok is running it will also decrease the pcm volume no matter if your using the helix pluggin or another pluggin.

Thanks Mojojo, that did the trick.:p

I've got the same problem. It's stopping me using what is otherwise a superb distro.

Amarok launches with no sound. Launch real player and turn volume up on that and all of a sudden you can hear amarok. After the next song starts it's back to 0%. What the hell is that all about!?! Does anyone know a fix? Are SuSE aware of this, and if not how do we let them know?

For a "Modern Desktop" distro this is pretty poor. to have SuSE's main installed media player working is a minimum to compete with M$ surly!

I've just emailed these 2 addresses with regards to our problem. Why don't you all do the same!

Steve

Silke.Schmitt@novell.com
suse-announce-uk-owner@suse.com

Thanks Steve
 

I think I will do that.

Thanks Steve

If I was you guys, I would just stop using RealPlayer and Helix engine altogether. The quality and resources aren't worth it, Just use the Xine engine, better quality, less CPU usage, and you don't have to install reaplayer ever. Which to me, is the biggest benefit of all.

I can't get the xine engine to work. When I kick play using the xine engine it just skips straight through the play list as if nothing was there to play!
Otherwise I would use xine

Try upgrading amarok to 1.3.5 that seemed to help me.I also upgaded kde to 3.4.3 also so I don't know where the problem was or what actually fixed it. But amarok seems to work now.

How do I upgrade? Do I have to uninstall the older version first and will their be a bunch of new dependencies with the new version? I know that when you try and remove Amarok with Yast it tells you to remove all the helix stuff too?

Just install the new version with YAST, it will uninstall the necessary files itself from the old version. Trust the YAST, its like Yoda, it knows what's what.

lol... I assume I get the new version for yast to install from the amarok/kde website?

Can I really stupid and ask how you get yast to update amarok.

Please be gentle I'm a newbie.

John

Sure you can.

1) Go to Guru, and get the Amarok 1.3.5 RPM.(one of the recommended official Amarok distribution sites). Guru is a good place to get a lot of things, so you may want to bookmark this page or even set it as a repository in YAST.

2) Run the rpm from konquerer, the "install with yast" button.

3) It will show you anything you may have missed, which for my was KDELibs3 on KDE 3.4.3, which I did not have.

4)Get this, and anything else you may be missing via searching for what the rpms "provides" are. You will find you need KDE 3.4.3 for KDELibs3. If you have enough repositories, you can find it right in YAST, otherwise you will have to search a site like rpm.pbone.net.

5) Install depencies with YAST.

6) Install amarok 1.3.5.

7) ENJOY!

Go to yast/software/installation source and add ftp now under server name add

mirror.mcs.anl.gov

under directory on server add

/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source

this is if you have the i386 setup which is older pentium 1,2,3,4 incase you were
wondering and suse 10.0? Anyway it should add to your insall source, now click refresh to turn refresh on so that it updates the source, an then finish.This is a kde upgrade so you can also upgrade to kde 3.4.3 if you would like otherwise go to software management and search amarok and chose the upgrade option.I used the amarok packages from guru and they didn't work any better incase someone is wondering why I didn't give the guru source.Search google for yast installation sources if you have any more questions.