Bug 233569

Summary:	loses the audio device when changing songs, with xine and gstreamer
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] Phonon	Reporter:	Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	myriam
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.4.0 (KDE 4.4.2)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	4.4.3
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Arne Babenhauserheide 2010-04-07 08:31:19 UTC

Version:           2.3.0 (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Gentoo)
Compiler:          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31-gentoo-r6

Hi, 

Amarok regularly loses the audio davice when switching from one song to the next and then displays “audio device … unavailable”. 

The only way to get audio again is to close amarok (quit) and start it again. 

I had it fixed for a few days (sadly I don’t know how), but the problem reappeared. 

Could be a duplicate of a similar error for 1.4: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209666

Comment 1 Arne Babenhauserheide 2010-04-07 08:32:16 UTC

Note: I use a USB pereamp, but it works flawlessly with mplayer.

Comment 2 Sven Krohlas 2010-04-07 21:55:18 UTC

I see that too, but i'm unsure who to blame for it.
Amarok? Phonon? Xine/Gsteamer? A 3rd party app? The distro for a bad config?

Hmmm.... anyone?

Comment 3 Arne Babenhauserheide 2010-04-08 14:57:14 UTC

I don’t know. Which distro do you use. 

My guess is that it is an interction of my USB preamp (MobilePre USB) and Phonon. 

Strange is that restarting Amarok fixes it, so maybe it’s the way Amarok accesses Phonon.

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-20 19:47:52 UTC

Is this bug still valid? It is a Phonon bug, BTW, not Amarok. Which Phonon backend do you use?

Comment 5 Arne Babenhauserheide 2010-08-21 02:25:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is this bug still valid? It is a Phonon bug, BTW, not Amarok. Which Phonon
> backend do you use?

I “fixed” it by switching to pulseaudio. Sine then I didn’t lose the device anymore. 

Thanks for asking!

Comment 6 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-08-21 13:01:07 UTC

Thank you for the feedback. Closing as the workaround is OK for you.