AmaroK gives no sound: crashes frequently
 

Hi There

I am new to SUSE Linux just installed a week and half ago. I have posted this question in another thread, but thought this would be more relevant here.

I have amarok installed on KDE 3.5 with the following engines Helix, Xine, gstreamer, Arts, and <no engine>. Each time I want to pla a streaming audio channel it plays but no sound comes out. All volume settings on system are NOT mute. Systems sound works fine.

If I try fidling around with the engine settings, amarok crashes. I have even tried updating the packages and checking for dependencies, but it still giving me problems.

How do I get amarok to play sound? Alternatively tell me what audio player to use to play streaming audio without actually going to e.g. shoutcast website. Real player 10 plays *.pls files so that is cool. But what I want is something with all the stations in one place, much like Winamp Media Library. Any such thing in Linux?

Once again thanks for the great help I get here!
SL

SUSE Novell 10 Eval Ed KDE 3.5 Gnome2.8

Does amarok show up some engine-related error message or another? I had a similar problem in Ubuntu Breeze
with Gstreamer, but switchig to the Xine engine was a quickfix.

i like amarok, so won't offer you another one...just wish this could be of any help to you.

vlado

Currenty it is in Xine. but still no luck.What output should I set it to? It crashes when I choose arts.

How can I post a screenshot for you to see the settings?

Sorry this is the error whne I choose Helix: amaroK could not initialize the helix-engine. Please check the paths in "amaroK Settings" -> "Engine"

And this when I Choose aRTs engine:
There was an error loading libamarokarts. First try:
killall -9 artsd && amarok
If that does not work then amaroK was probably installed with the wrong prefix; please re-configure amaroK using:
./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` && su -c "make install"

Do you have alsa installed and configured? if yes use alsa output.

just a remark: enine=xine;output=autodetect/esd - that are my working settings.

Update: AmaroK Now working
 

I had to download other packages like Kaffiene, Totem and with their dependencies...seem to have fixed whatver was the problem. The way I did this in YaST2 was to search for "media" and download ALL media players and checked for dependencies. It worked.

Thanks,
SL

Xine engine and autodetect, works fine now!

The other thing I've seen help is to install the xine-libs package from packman - apparently these get round a few gremlins.

Cheers, Jon