I don't know how to categorize this, so I just put it here. I try to play an Mp3 in the player that came with Slack, Noatun i think, and it plays two songs at once, neither of which are the ones i wanted to play. when i close the player, one of the random songs will continue playing for awhile, then quit. Anyone ever heard of a problem lik ethis and know how to fix it? I have An asus board with onboard Nforce sound. BTW, I tried xmms, and it says it can't load th audio file. I don't know about this either.

Seems like something beside Noatun is running at the same time.

check KDE System Guard to see whats also coming up.

(I might be wrong though )

Checked. It only shows one copy of Noatun running, and most everything else I know what it is, so it doesn't look like there's another program playing the music. That just makes the problem all the more complicated, though. I might try reinstalling my sound drivers, though I don't know how that would help.

maybe you still have your mouse pointer over another mp3 file?
on mandrake 9.1 when you get your cursor over a mp3 file, it automatically starts playing.
better check that before reinstalling your sound drivers

Heres another suggestion....... http://www.mplayerhq.hu (mplayer)
it plays dvd, cds, mp3, mpg, avi, ...etc and its less buggy

Post your 'ps -e' while you're having the problem.

i definately recommend mplayer. it can even play those wmv files

I'll try mplayer, though I'd like to get xmms working, since I'm used to winamp. Tried again, it plays two songs at once, but it's the second one that is random, and it changes randomly sometimes. It also skips like hell. The second one continues playing after I close the player. It played straight through this time.

here's ps -e

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:06 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
5 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
6 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
10 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
11 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
23 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
70 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
72 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
108 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd
125 ? 00:00:00 khubd
938 ? 00:00:00 rpc.portmap
953 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
956 ? 00:00:00 klogd
958 ? 00:00:00 inetd
961 ? 00:00:00 sshd
975 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
989 ? 00:00:00 crond
992 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
994 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
999 ? 00:00:00 gpm
1001 tty1 00:00:00 bash
1002 tty2 00:00:00 agetty
1003 tty3 00:00:00 agetty
1004 tty4 00:00:00 agetty
1005 tty5 00:00:00 agetty
1006 tty6 00:00:00 agetty
1019 tty1 00:00:00 startx
1031 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
1032 ? 00:01:02 X
1036 tty1 00:00:00 xinitrc
1037 tty1 00:00:00 startkde
1055 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1058 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1061 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1063 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1070 ? 00:00:10 artsd
1076 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1077 tty1 00:00:00 kwrapper
1079 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1080 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
1082 ? 00:00:01 kdeinit
1084 ? 00:00:02 kdeinit
1085 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1089 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1092 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1093 ? 00:00:00 kwikdisk
1094 ? 00:00:00 korgac
1096 ? 00:00:00 kget
1098 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1103 ? 00:00:00 kalarmd
1105 ? 00:00:18 kdeinit
1153 ? 00:00:00 kit
1155 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1158 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1160 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1162 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1163 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1164 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1165 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1170 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1173 ? 00:00:02 kdeinit
1174 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1176 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1177 ? 00:00:00 artsd
1185 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1186 ? 00:00:00 artsd
1188 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
1189 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
1202 ? 00:00:00 artsd
1203 pts/0 00:00:00 ps

I don't know what it calls my player.

Does this happen when you use a command line player?

useyou might have to kill the aRTs sound daemon first -- killall artsd.

See what happens.

This could also be an issue with your soundserver -- in KDE it's the aRTs soud server, like I said. I've found it to be a little buggy, but this is at least a place to look first

This sounds more like a bug than anything.

-Shade

Whoa. I just noticed something very strange that might be at the root of my problem. I went to look in my music directory to find a filename to play from commandline, and all the files look like this:

Jeff\ Buckley\ -\ Last\ Goodbye.MP3*

some of them even have random numbers inserted into them. I'm not sure exactly what it'll do, but "-\" is a command. The backslashes don't show up in KDE, though. How do I get rid of backslashes in 2500+ files? (which are all legal of course) For that matter, how do I get rid of them at all without executing the command? And anyone have any ideas how they got there in the first place?

The \- is simply because Linux inserts a \ before each space in a file name, it won't be a problem.

I recomend getting rid of artsd, it's buggy and can cause problems like this. I'd say there's about an 80% chance that it's responsible.

To do it go into the KDE control center and in sound setting choose to disable it. It doesn't really do anything so don't worry about it.

Disabling artsd did the trick, but it still skips like the computer is busy. I have nothing else going on except browsing the net. Where do I start on that?

Oh, and thanks, btw.

I'm not sure exactly how to do this is Noautun (<- SP) but somewhere in the preferences there should be an option to increase the size of the buffer, have a look. Increase it to somewhere between 500 and 1000 ms.

This should work.


Edit::Sorry I forgot you weren't using XMMS.

Sorry bout the long response time... haven't been around... Can't figure out how to change buffer in noatun, found that doesn't skip when I'm not doing anything else, almost like the prog is very low priority or something. I need to just install mPlayer. Anyone have any special advice on installing it? I can probably figure it out, but just in case there's any issues I need to know about...