No sound from Amarok (phonon/ pulseaudio)

[Steven P. Ulrick]

> On 05/05/2010 01:18 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:54 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> F12 /x86, fully up to date, except I can't boot the most recent kernel.
> >>>>
> >>>> $uname -a
> >>>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Mar
> >>>> 23 10:04:28 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >>>>
> >>>> Sound works for everything except Amarok.
> >>>>
> >>>> Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Playback -> Sound System Configuration
> >>>> shows "Configure Phonon" which then lists pulse Audio as my sole
> >>>> option.
> >>>
> >>> Does the 'test' button work or do anything?
> >>
> >> Nope.
> >
> >>>> $ yum list phonon
> >>>> Installed Packages
> >>>> phonon.i686
> >>>> 4.4.0-3.fc12                                                  @updates
> >>> ...
> >>>> How do I get sound working for Amarok ?
> >>>
> >>> What does pavucontrol say is your PA output device?
> >>
> >> "Internal Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
> >>
> >> On the Configuration tab, Internal Audio is shown as "Digital Stereo
> >> Duplex (IE958)"
> >>
> >> On the Playback tab, Amarok is the only application shown, other than
> >> System Sounds.
> >
> > While playing, does pavucontrol show any activity for the amarok stream?
> >
> > Either way, I'd venture there is a volume problem here, something got muted
> > or set to 0 somehwere.
> >
> > -- Rex
> >
> 
> Hmm.  While digging around when I had sound problems,
> I found the following URL of interest:
> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
> 
> It claims,
> "Amarok ¶
> 
> Amarok is a KDE media player. It supports multiple "engines", which can
> be changed within the menu: "Settings -> Configure Amarok... ->
> Engines". The GStreamer engine supports PulseAudio (refer to the general
> GStreamer section on this page for more information), while the Xine
> engine supports both PulseAudio (1.1.2 and newer) and Esound (older
> versions). "

Hello Everyone,
On Amarok 2.3-GIT, that is now located thusly:
"Settings | Configure Amarok | Playback | Configure Phonon | Backend"

I think most people will be able to figure out that there are a mixture of tabs 
and buttons in the above stated path...

Steven P. Ulrick