Just fired up the adept, as I've had a "upgrades available" icon showing for a couple of days - it's been an upgrade for libcairo2 which appears to have broken dependencies.

So this evening I check and theres some ruby upgrades and amarok, I install the stuff that will install (the libcairo2 isn't playing so I can wait).

Now, if I try to listen to some music with Amarok, I get a dialogue error box telling me that "no audio channel available" - which is complete bollocks because I'm getting all the usual system sounds and I'm currently listening to some stuff via Juk.

Amarok is my preferred player so how do I find out what and where the problem is please ?

regards

John

p.s. Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper is the install.

Do you have Xine/xine-libs installed? The recent version in Debian (1.4.0a-1+b1) changed so that only the xine engine was supported for playback perhaps the same is going on for you.

Yes I do have the xine and libs installed. I've managed to find out that it appears to be a problem with flac format music - I'm given to understand that mp3's etc are still playing OK (I wouldn't know as all my music is ripped as flac so that I can listen to it on my desktop but also because my Rio Karma supports flac).

Why would "they" have dropped flac support ?? Or maybe theres a setting for me to change or something.

regards

John

Your right no flac support I just tried one and got the no audio channel myself. My collection is mainly .ogg with a few .mp3 and they still play fine, one thing you could do is use xmms with the xmms-flac plugin and play them in there until amarok gets its S*** together again.

Ha ha! Great minds think alike.

When this issue showed up, I just looked at my mulitmedia listing in my menu and fired up JuK - which, conveniently, still works fine so I'm not left as a music free zone.

regards

John

p.s. and yes, I agree, it's pretty arse, that they seem to have released the Amarok upgrade without the flac support!