Amarok on new F11

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 08:02:49 Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> On Sunday 26 July 2009 18:16:27 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > New installation (+kde updates) on laptop - A track plays for just under
> > 1 minute, then starts to race through the rest with only crackles and
> > pops souding.  The same track plays to the end in kaffeine.
> >
> > I had to change the default in Amarok from Intel ICH6 to PA to get it to
> > play at all, but that's the only change I've made.  Any idea what the
> > problem might be?  Thanks
>
> Could you try to switch to GStreamer backend instead Xine default one? I
> was trying to figure out what was wrong but... With GStreamer backend it's
> OK. 

Hi, Jaroslav.  That was one of the first things I did.  That got sound 
started, but then I had the situation where a track would start to play, then 
race on to the end of the track, producing only rapid clicks.

It turned out to be an alsa bug -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514213

The work-around is to edit /etc/pulse/default.pa,

change, ...

load-module module-hal-detect

to

load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0

which kills off the existing pulseaudio daemon so it restarts and reads the 
config update.

Since I did that I have listened to amarok-played mp3s for hours on end.  HTH

Anne
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