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amarok package

xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

Bug #93979 reported by Richard on 2007-03-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #68187: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers." error. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	amarok (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I just upgrades my music juke box to Feisty, I have two sound cards in the machine and both were working fine before the upgrade. I use Amorak to manage my collection. Now when I try to play a track with amarok using using the ALSA output plugin i get the following message: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers." When I switch the plug in to autodetect, sound play but the sound now alternates between my two cards. One track play out one card then the other track in the playlist play out the other. Also when I change sound driver in the GNOME Sound settings from Autodetect to ALSA, I am no longer able to hear the test sound.

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Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez) wrote on 2007-09-21:

lots of information provided by richard Edit (35.8 KiB, text/html)

I moved all the info into an attachment. Ideally each thing should be moved to its own attachment properly named. I also updated the subject to something more descriptive (although not much better).

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) wrote on 2008-04-01:

Hi all,

I just had the same issue today in Kubuntu Hardy Heron pre-release version. I suspect that this is an old bug solely related to Amarok.

I found the solution for my problem at the following URL: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102064

Edit the file ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/xine-config and

change:

audio.device.alsa_default_device:default
audio.device.alsa_front_device:default

to:

audio.device.alsa_default_device:plughw:0,0
audio.device.alsa_front_device:plughw:0,0

Edit the file ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc and make sure the line "Output Plugin" is configured as follows:

[Xine-Engine]
Output Plugin=alsa

Hope this helps someone out there.

Cheerio,

Mark

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) wrote on 2008-04-01:

If my previous workaround did not help, try the following solution:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102064&page=4

So execute command "sudo apt-get install libxine-dev libxine1-dbg libxine1-misc-plugins"

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Juha Sadeharju (juha-sadeharju) wrote on 2008-04-01:

I had the same issue with Hardy Heron and none of the above worked. But logging out and in again did. Apparently Amarok just locks up the sound system somehow.

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Mister-EL (mister-el) wrote on 2008-05-04:

Hi,

today I found out that me old amarok config only able to initialize any audio drivers if xine-ui is not installed. I tested behavior 3 times.

but 'mv ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc ~/.Trash' solves the problem