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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?
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.
Last edited by Eternal_Newbie; 12-23-2009 at 10:30 AM.
Reason: splening
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.
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.
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