Hi all,

when I play a file in Amarok, the sound is damaged. I don't know how to describe the sound, but it is something like "scratchy". Could this be fixed somehow?
Tested on mp3
OS: OpenSUSE 12.3
KDE: 4.10.2 "release 1"
Amarok: 2.7.0-185.1
Sound backend: VLC (phonon-backend-vlc 0.6.0-1.2)
Notes: Playing the same file in VLC, KMPLayer, even in Dolphin is OK

fli.

1) the vlc backend seems old, you should be able to install 4.6.3git, it's in the playground repo. http://software.opensuse.org/package/phonon-backend-vlc

2) try the gstreamer backend

As already mentioned: your vlc backend is quite outdated, current is 0.6.3, which came out even before Amarok 2.7.0.
Also try disabling ReplayGain, that could also interfere.

Thank you all for the replies. Unfortunately, the updated version of the vlc backend is not in "stable" repositories (or I didn't find it) and I don't want to mix stable/unstable packages (due to bad experiences from before ). However, the gstreamer backend works fine.

Oh my, how can it not be in the stable repository? It came out several months ago, and long before Amarok 2.7.0 which is from January.

Mamarok wrote:Oh my, how can it not be in the stable repository? It came out several months ago, and long before Amarok 2.7.0 which is from January.

in openSUSE (for whatever reason) it is the Playground repo

better question is where did the old one come from

google01103 wrote:

Mamarok wrote:Oh my, how can it not be in the stable repository? It came out several months ago, and long before Amarok 2.7.0 which is from January.

in openSUSE (for whatever reason) it is the Playground repo

The reason is because VLC is not included in the main distro.
This has changed recently, so for the next openSUSE version phonon-backend-vlc and VLC (without some codecs) will be part of the distro.

better question is where did the old one come from

From Packman I assume. I don't know why they haven't updated it yet, though...