Can't play audio cd's with amarok.

Hungry ghost · 11-21-2005, 06:54 AM

Hi all, I'm on FC4, and I just installed amarok 1.3.5. Everything works fine, except, I can't hear audio cd's. I go to 'Actions > Play audio cd's' and it shows me the song it's supposed to be playing, but doesn't play anything at all. When I start amarok from the command line I get the following:

Code:

[vicente@localhost ~]$ amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp.
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
amaroK: [Loader] amaroK is taking a long time to load! Perhaps something has gone wrong?
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
QObject::connect: Cannot connect QSignal::signal(const QVariant&) to (null)::(null)
QObject::connect: Cannot connect QSignal::signal(const QVariant&) to (null)::(null)
QObject::connect: Cannot connect QSignal::signal(const QVariant&) to (null)::(null)

Is anyone having the same issue?? How to solve it?? Thanks in advance.

RedShirt · 11-21-2005, 08:19 AM

Shoot, that happened to me, and I figured amarok just couldn't or wasn't supposed to. So I used xmms because KsCD sucks so terribly, but I do like amarok, especially the little minimized to the tray controls, which work across all my desktops. So knowing it wasn't just me, I would like CD functionality in amarok too.

SuSE 10.0, KDE, with amarok 1.3.6(Guru)...

Hungry ghost · 11-21-2005, 09:36 AM

I just upgraded to 1.3.6 and still having the same issue. Well, I use xmms to listen audio cd's too. Thanks for your reply.

RedShirt · 11-23-2005, 09:38 AM

Just happened to figure this one out, possibly. I use the xine engine by default, I like it. It does not have the option to play audio CDs in amarok.
I switched to the arts engine, which allowed it to work as you describe, it opens the cd, acts like it will play, then nada.
I switched to gstreamer, and immediately recieved CD audio working just fine.

Let me know if you get the same results.

Hungry ghost · 11-23-2005, 10:45 AM

Yes, with the gstreamer engine I can play audio cd's, but then, the programs I've setup to use artsplay as sound output, doesn't play sounds (i'm on KDE and I'm using the amarok arts engine). I tried to solve it by selecting the gstreamer engine and artsdsink as output extension, but then, for some strange reason, amarok goes through the playlist very fast and doesn't play anything at all.

I'll try to find a solution for it. Thanks for your help.

RedShirt · 11-23-2005, 01:05 PM

Yeah, gstreamer won't play mp3s either, which means for me, it isn't only good for playing CDs. That isn't terrible, at least I can use it again. But at least this is a step in the right direction.

Hungry ghost · 11-23-2005, 07:48 PM

I can play mp3's with the gstreamer engine on FC4. I think you need the gstreamer-plugins-mp3 package. (downloaded via yum). Maybe there's a similar package for SuSE too?