If I remove xine-libs and recomplile world with USE="gstreamer -xine", then amarok plays only one track per restart. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove xine-lib 2. Play song 1 3. Play song 2 - you will have no sound
Please post your emerge --info and the ouput of emerge -pv amarok amarok-utils
Do you have gstreamer active in System Settings -> Computer Administration -> Multimedia or if you prefer from amarok Settings -> Configure Amarok -> Playback -> Sound system configuration? Are you using pulseaudio with gstreamer?
[ebuild R ] media-sound/amarok-utils-2.2.1.90 USE="-bindist -debug" 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/amarok-2.2.1.90 USE="cdda embedded mtp opengl semantic-desktop (-aqua) -bindist -daap -debug -ipod (-kdeenablefinal) -lastfm -mp3tunes" LINGUAS="ru -bg -ca -cs -da -de -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -it -ja -km -nb -nds -nl -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -sl -sr -sr@latin -sv -th -tr -uk -wa -zh_TW" 0 kB Same problem was with stable versions (2.2.0). I do not have pulseaudio in system, gstreamer backend was active and set automatically. More info: [ebuild R ] media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.24 USE="nls -test" 2,913 kB [ebuild R ] media-sound/phonon-4.3.50_pre20090520 USE="gstreamer xcb xine -debug" 0 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1 USE="acl alsa bzip2 handbook jpeg2k lzma mmx nls openexr opengl semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl -3dnow (-altivec) (-aqua) -bindist -debug -doc -fam (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -kerberos -test -zeroconf" 10,270 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/phonon-kde-4.3.3 USE="xine (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -pulseaudio" 0 kB
Created attachment 213527 [details] emerge --info
jmbsvicetto, are you able to play 2+ files in amarok without xine-lib in system?
This is probably caused by a bug in the phonon gstreamer backend - as it has been frequently suggested in the amarok-users list. In any case, please check the following upstream bugs - https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=amarok+gstreamer https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172372 - seems to be the best candidate
If amarok is known to work well only with xine backend and phonon-gstreamer is broken why ebuild does not depend on >=kde-base/phonon-kde-${KDE_MINIMAL}[xine]? Please fix dependencies.
Can you please try again with the latest phonon and amarok? amarok-2.2.2.90 will be put later today in the tree. We don't have a hard dep on phonon[xine] as we don't want to force any backend.
media-sound/amarok-2.2.2.90 media-sound/amarok-utils-2.2.2.90 kde-base/phonon-kde-4.3.3 media-sound/phonon-4.3.80-r1 media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.24 With this versions I still can not play second song. Does amarok work well for you with phonon-kde-4.4.0 without xine-lib in system? Why you do not want to add warning in ebuilds? I like choice of backends too, but users should know about problems with them.
(In reply to comment #8) > We don't have a hard dep on phonon[xine] as we don't want to force any backend. (In reply to comment #9) > Why you do not want to add warning in ebuilds? I like choice of backends too, > but users should know about problems with them. I didn't say anything about warnings, but instead about forcing deps, which is what you suggested in the previous comment. I don't use pulseaudio nor gstreamer, so I can't test that combo.
Now amarok works fine for me with gstreamer and no xine-lib in system. Versions: media-sound/amarok-2.3.0.90 kde-base/phonon-kde-4.4.3 media-sound/phonon-4.3.80-r1 media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.25 media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r4 media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.25 media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.17 media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13
