Re: [opensuse] Amarok fails on KDE upgrade

On Monday 16 Apr 2012 17:02:45 George Olson wrote:
I am using openSUSE 12.1, one on a desktop with an ASUS motherboard and
another on a Lenovo 3000 V200 laptop. Since I have upgraded to KDE 8.2
on 2 computers is that neither of them will play music files with
Amarok. My Amaraok app uses Xine as the phonon backend (not sure what
phonon is, but that is what it says),

Phonon is an adapter that allows KDE apps to select which actual sound system
to use. Don't use the xine backend, it is unmaintained. Use the gstreamer
or Pulseaudio backends instead.

and in the configuration graphic,
I have it set up with internal audio as the sound card. However, it
defaults to my A4tech webcam as the sound card, whenever I close the
configuration screen even if I set it to the internal audio as the sound
card. On the audio playback device preference in Amarok configuration,
which only has the internal card listed and not the webcam, if I hit the
"test sound" button, the test sound plays through the speakers just
fine. However, no music will play out of the play lists on the Amarok
main screen.

This has happened on both computers that I upgraded to KDE 8.2. Other
sound applications so far seem to work ok, though I haven't tested them
all. Kaffeine and Banshee both play files ok.

Any suggestions on where to troubleshoot next?

Try PulseAudio instead, and deinstall phonon-backend-xine for safety.

George
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