Sound problem on fc 19 - xmms no longer can play

[Ananda Samaddar]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:44:10 -0400
"William W. Austin" <airedad at att.net> wrote:

> Last weekend I did a clean install of Fedora 19 on my main
> workstation replacing fc17 which had been there. (As I  usually do, I
> pulled the drive containing /, /tmp, /var, and swap and replaced it
> there.  That drive is in another machine and I can compare the diffs.)
> 
> Suddenly although alsaplayer works just fine, xmms cannot play
> anything. When I attempt to run xmms, I get a show-box with the error
> message:
> 
> "Please check that
> 
> Your soundcard is configured properly
> You have the correct output plugin selected
> No other program is blocking the soundcard"
> 
> I've done that and the card is configured correctly, and the correct 
> output plugin is selected - and no other program that I can find is 
> blocking the card.
> 
> I've even gone so far as to do a "yum remove pulseaudio" (which
> worked just fine to solve this same problem up through at least
> fc17), but that didn't help either.  So I suspect that something else
> is going on here.
> 
> lsof doesn't show anything holding any of the sound devices open.
> The rpms all verify correctly
> 
> root gets the same result as a non-privileged user.
> 
> So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
>   - Bill

What on earth are you using antiquated software like XMMS for?  Why
don't you try an up-to-date fork of it like Audacious?  It has a gui
that mimics XMMS if you desire that.

Ananda
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