Hello people!

First at all, thanks for this great program... continue working hard!!!

I am using amaroK v1.4.6 - Fedora Core 4

I am frequently listening a 0.5-second-duration noise (similar to the one you here when you shut down your computer without shutting down first your speakers), when a new song is played, i.e. when a song finished and a new one started.

I dont listen this noise with XMMS, so this is not a problem of my MP3s.

it happens maybe after every song, or maybe just during one or two songs of an album.

What can I do???? I would not like to go back to XMMS. This noise is becoming really annoying.

Thanks,

Diego

First thing to do: Tell us which engine you are using.

marcel wrote:

First thing to do: Tell us which engine you are using.

I am using GStreamer

I get exactly the same thing using amarok-xine for 1.3.7-3. It happens when first playing any track, and does not happen pausing/unpausing. It sounds just like a speaker/monitor losing line signal. I have an Audigy2 Value and use ALSA.

Is it a bug in the way xine is called? ALSA?

Lee

If your using xine, try gstreamer. If your using gstreamer, try xine.

Diego Torquemada wrote:

I am using amaroK v1.4.6 - Fedora Core 4

i guess all of us should switch to fedora, right? 1.4.6 isnt even in CVS :laugh:

K, we had a good laugh about 1.4.6, though..

upgrade to 1.3.7 (my guess is you meant 1.3.6)??

then go ahead to amarok preferences, i bet you have \"cross-fadeing\" enabled? cross-fadeeing doesnt work well with current engines, except arts.
turn cross-fadeing off, and see if it helps.
HTH

btw: this has been discussed plenty times already in here, though.
and btw.. a happy new year!

Cross-fading is off.

I gave up on GStreamer some time ago @ \"could not create the element decodebin\"; surprisingly arcane just to get MP3\'s decoding. This stuff should just work. I guess I\'ll stick with xine and put up with the buggy noise as my 20 years in computing doesn\'t equip me with nearly enough smarts to grapple with GStreamer...

Update- got GStreamer to work and it solved the problem. For those using SuSE and apt, you need to install the gstreamer \'extra\' plugins (only way I could get vital playbin plugin), gstreamer mad plugin, and run gst-register.