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Bug 2640

Summary:	Amarok doesn't play without pulseaudio, but no dependency on it
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	M@trixX <matrixx-trinity>
Component:	tdemultimedia	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	bugwatch, matrixx-trinity, michele.calgaro
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:	14.0.3
Application Version:	1.4.10	Application Name:	amarok

Description M@trixX 2016-04-22 06:27:11 CDT

Amarok displays an error about not being able to find any audio device unless Pulseaudio is installed (and running).
This happens also with manual selection of device, which works in other programs.

As a workaround, Pulseaudio should be installed as dependency of Amarok.

(it *might* be installed by some other packages when installing kubuntu-desktop-trinity, but that doesn't allow any reasonable manual selection of packages)

At least ubuntu 16.04 is affected.

Comment 1 Michele Calgaro 2016-04-22 07:16:54 CDT

Quite strange.... Amarok definitely can play without pulseaudio installed as long as a valid audio device exists (no pulseaudio on my system :-) )
Is alsa installed and correctly setup?

Comment 2 M@trixX 2016-04-22 07:55:56 CDT

Alsa was installed and VLC could play via it, so I believe alsa was not a problem.
In that case I guess there must be another library missing between amarok/xine  and alsa.

Comment 3 Michele Calgaro 2016-04-23 07:39:01 CDT

Ok, thanks for the feedback. 
Could you post a screenshot of the error message? That may help with debugging :-)

By the way, which TDE version?

Comment 4 M@trixX 2016-04-25 03:10:25 CDT

TDE 14.0.3, amarok 1.4.10, ubuntu 16.04.

The error message was "xine was unable to initialize audio drivers error message", no additional information on it and nothing related in the standard output, when started from terminal.

Comment 5 M@trixX 2016-04-25 03:12:26 CDT

Sorry, it's just "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers", no "error message" in the error message.

Comment 6 Michele Calgaro 2016-04-26 05:38:22 CDT

ok thanks.

Comment 7 Michele Calgaro 2018-08-04 08:01:24 CDT

Is this still valid? I see no problem on my system and definitely never had pulseaudio installed.

Comment 8 Michele Calgaro 2020-05-25 00:17:59 CDT

Amarook definitely works without PA, as long as ALSA is installed and artsd is running.
Since amarok works and there is a long inactivity without reply, I am closing this bug. Feel free to reopen it if you can still replicate the problem and provide detailed steps for that :-)