Am Freitag, den 04.04.2008, 11:14 -0700 schrieb Brian Mury: > On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:29 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > What exactly is the relation between pulseaudio and amarok? > In a nutshell: Amarok is an application for playing music. PulseAudio is > a layer that sits between the application and the hardware. Right, and thats not all: I dont know amarok, I use xmms. Xmms has a plugin which allows him to use the pulseaudio layer. Do you know whether amarok needs a plugin, or that capability is native? > > I see on my KDE system I also have KDE=>Multimedia=>CD Player > > but I have no idea what application this refers to. > > Clicking on it does not produce any sound, in any case. Thats another problem. I suggest you to fix pulseaudio first. > > unless one has more than one soundcard, > > which surely is extremely rare. > It is more common than you think. I have three sound cards in this > computer. Two soundcards at home. No problems. > > RealPlayer, mplayer, helix, amarok, KsCD, KMix - > > is there any end to this ... Again, fix pulseaudio first. Try (not as root) pulseaudio -k pulseaudio -D Greets! ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- "Die Beichte, nicht der Priester, erteilt uns die Absolution." - Oscar Wilde
