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[youlikeicecream]

Hi I am using Amarok 1.2.3 on KDE 3.4 and I am experiencing glitchy stuttering playback on my mp3 collection. Am using aRTs engine, my soundcard is fine when i play the test sounds or when loggin in/notification sounds.

I was using Mandriva 10.2 with Amarok 1.2.2 on KDE 3.3 and there were no glitches whatsoever. I did notice that it had more engines installed than my current version (1.2.3 on KDE 3.4)

have also experienced this problem on another computer with the same software but differen't HW

does anyone have any ideas why this may be ?

Mike Smith

[Flea]

One thing that might help is if you increase the audio buffer, unfortunately I am not running KDE anymore so I can't give exact instructions, Its somewhere in the KDE Kontrol Centre, under the sound server options. Increasing the buffer size will smooth out play back but you may find that songs are a bit laggy. Alternatively you could choose to use the Xine or Gstreamer engine in Amarok and bypass aRTs all together which IMHO has always been a crappy daemon.

Hope this helps,

Dave.
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[youlikeicecream]

tried that, made buffer bigger/smaller/no-realtime all were glitchy, got glitchier as i moved away from the median setting

[Guest]

Hi! try to change your buffer to real-time, then on configure your desktop change your sound engine to Open Linux Sound System. On amarok change the sound engine to arts

[youlikeicecream]

sound engine is arts, realtime is enabled, will check if im using Open sound system ...

[youlikeicecream]

my work machine is happy with this config, will try at home to see if it solves the problem there. thanks

[youlikeicecream]

Um, I did notice that when i was using Amarok 1.2.3 it had Xine and Gstreamer installed alon with Arts, I used Xine on Mandriva, but now in version 1.2.3 under Kubuntu, it only has aRTs support, I briefly looked through my installable SW but i found that Xine wasnt on my list only Amarok-libs or similiar. I would rather use Xine or Gstreamer but I dont know what to do to get them ? apt-get ?

[youlikeicecream]

root@Kubuntu:/home/mikes # apt-get install amarok-xine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package amarok-xine
root@Kubuntu:/home/mikes # apt-get install xine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xine
root@Kubuntu:/home/mikes #


apparently not - lol

[youlikeicecream]

opensound has solved the problem, cheers all