Sound Issues with media players in Slackware
 

I am having sound issues with all the media players that Slackware comes bundled with, but the Internet sounds and Flash Videos work fine. Whenever I try to play a song in any of the media players, it skips constantly. How can I fix this problem?

what are the media players you had tried ?? have you tried VLC , mplayer, smplayer ??

hhmmm, have you tried enabling the option "use software mixer" or "software mixer". might be worth a try.

I have tried smplayer, xmms, audacious, and Amarok
 

I have tried all of the media players that I mentioned in the title, and I still get the same playback issues. The software volume control is enabled in smplayer, and I still get the sound issues. How can I fix this? Thank you for your time.

If you are in KDE, I would try disabling the KDE sound server (can't remember what its called, don't use KDE) It should be in the KDE Control Centre under Sound.

That may be for Kde 3.5
 

I am using KDE 4, it only has a multimedia section. How can I fix it from there?

I have tried setting the sound using alsaconf
 

I have tried setting the sound using alsaconf and then using alsamixer to set the volumes, and I still get the sound issues. It works fine with games, flash videos, and smplayer, but not in Amarok, xmms, and Audacious. I have the audio backend set to Xine. Should I upgrade my KDE version to latest one? That has worked with other bugs, I believe.

just for a test, open a terminal and type

play sound.mp3 (or whatever)

and let us know if it skips.

Also I would have you tried changing from KDE to say XFCE just to test and see if it is in fact KDE thats causing the problem? That's what I would try next.

It had never crossed my mind that I could play music from the command line. That's just awesome!

I tried playing it through the command line.
 

I tried your suggestion, and it still skipped. I will try switching to xfce to see if that fixes the problem. Thanks for the help!

Kfce
 

I tried switching to that one, but it still didn't work. What can I do to fix this? Thank you for your time.

what is your soundcard and also give us the output of

lsmod

My soundcard is a Soundblaster live! 24 bit card
 

lsmod
Module Size Used by
sg 24912 0
bsd_comp 5244 0
ipt_LOG 5344 3
xt_tcpudp 2620 6
iptable_filter 2268 1
ip_tables 10892 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 13280 3 ipt_LOG,xt_tcpudp,ip_tables
ppp_synctty 6940 0
ppp_async 8668 1
crc_ccitt 1628 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 22472 7 bsd_comp,ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 5404 1 ppp_generic
snd_seq_dummy 2464 0
snd_seq_oss 29792 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5980 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47984 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 37728 0
snd_mixer_oss 14300 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 243508 18
pcmcia 33772 0
pcmcia_core 32016 1 pcmcia
lp 9316 0
fuse 54008 3
ppdev 7200 0
nvidia 9981796 38
snd_ca0106 32864 5
snd_ac97_codec 100128 1 snd_ca0106
snd_usb_audio 80352 1
snd_usb_lib 15228 1 snd_usb_audio
ac97_bus 1372 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_rawmidi 19040 2 snd_ca0106,snd_usb_lib
snd_pcm 68128 6 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_device 6088 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 19108 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 6816 1 snd_usb_audio
snd 50820 22 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,sn d_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
snd_page_alloc 7972 2 snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
soundcore 5824 1 snd
e100 30660 0
tulip 49344 0
gspca_zc3xx 47772 0
mii 4380 1 e100
thermal 15096 1
gspca_main 21564 1 gspca_zc3xx
processor 38600 1 thermal
rtc_cmos 10124 0
intel_agp 25628 1
dcdbas 7068 0
i2c_i801 8784 0
videodev 38688 1 gspca_main
parport_pc 24036 1
rtc_core 15992 1 rtc_cmos
thermal_sys 10756 2 thermal,processor
psmouse 41676 0
agpgart 29256 2 nvidia,intel_agp
shpchp 31888 0
v4l1_compat 13184 1 videodev
parport 30700 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
rtc_lib 2332 1 rtc_core
hwmon 2104 1 thermal_sys
serio_raw 5024 0
evdev 9152 6
button 5708 0

try increasing buffer size in audacious from 500 to 1000 and see if that makes any difference.

Re:Increasing the buffer size
 

I tried doing that in audacious, but the sound still skipped. What can I try next? Thanks for all of your help.