Install e.g. fluxbox, start it from kdm then start amarok in it. Maybe something is using your sound device under KDE in a "funny" way...

Uhm, just to be sure: You don't have Amarok muted, or the volume at 0%?

(I've seen it before...)

markey wrote:Uhm, just to be sure: You don't have Amarok muted, or the volume at 0%?

I'd ask that too. No, the volume slider (top right) is at 90%.

Sound in KDE generally (and non-KDE apps too) works fine-- as I was writing this I just got a ping from Kmail for incoming mail.

If you upgraded any component of your KDE system recently, try restarting Amarok.

Every time I make any of the changes people have suggested here, I at least restart Amarok. If the change has to do with any phonon-related or other back end components, I log out and back in again.

If you do not care about your statistics, try nuking your Amarok configuration.

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kquitapp amarok
sleep 20s
rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/amarok*
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/amarok/

bcooksley wrote:If you do not care about your statistics, try nuking your Amarok configuration.

Yes, I already tried this, back in an earlier comment. Often therapeutic for KDE apps... but in this case it didn't help

Thanks for the attention that you've all given to this problem so far. To pull everything together, I just did the following:

• shut down KDE for all users
• killed all remaining stray user and KDE-related processes
• wiped out my ~/.kde/share/{config,share}/amarok* and ~/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc
• restarted KDE and Amarok.

There's no change. Other apps, e.g. Dragon player and XMMS, make sound, and when I go to System settings > Multimedia and test the top-listed device (which is the same in all audio categories), I get sound. But from Amarok, there's no sound. Amarok's sound slider is currently set at 80% and not muted.

Amarok does make sound for a newly created user, as I reported before. So unless anyone has any other ideas, I think I'll probably be forced to try a binary search through ~/.kde, as I suggested before. Or is there some debugging or other systematic approach that might be more successful?

Thanks,
Andrew.

Try removing the caches/temporary directories/etc used by KDE also:
This MUST be done outside a KDE session however.

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rm -rf /var/tmp/kde*-$USER
rm -rf /tmp/ksocket-$USER
rm -rf /tmp/kde-$USER

I had same kind of problem.
Deleting "~/.xine/catalog.cache" helped me.

I am having this exact same issue on the Windows build of 2.2 so maybe this is a bug and not a settings error?
However, I am not having this issue on my Kubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

I removed all of

~/.xine
/var/tmp/kde*-$USER
/tmp/ksocket-$USER
/tmp/kde*-$USER

as suggested. Unfortunately, ATM sound is no longer working for me in KDE at all, so I'm not able to tell whether these steps worked. This is a general problem that I've been struggling with for months, ever since I installed KDE 4: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197679 .

But I swear (or affirm), that sound was working before in other KDE apps, just not Amarok. Whether my general sound problem is related to my Amarok sound problem, I can't say, since the cause of both is unknown

If I were you, instead of going through this world of hurt, I'd make a backup of important files, then nuke the whole HDD, and do a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10.

markey wrote:If I were you, instead of going through this world of hurt, I'd make a backup of important files, then nuke the whole HDD, and do a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10.

Yeah, I hear you. This is my Debian LAN server, so I'm not going to reinstall. But moving aside all of ~/.kde would probably get me there and cause only about an hour of reconfiguration pain.

andrex wrote:

markey wrote:If I were you, instead of going through this world of hurt, I'd make a backup of important files, then nuke the whole HDD, and do a fresh install of Kubuntu 9.10.

Yeah, I hear you. This is my Debian LAN server, so I'm not going to reinstall. But moving aside all of ~/.kde would probably get me there and cause only about an hour of reconfiguration pain.

Calm down, this was not an answer addressed to you but the user above who uses Kubuntu.

Sound works perfectly well here, using default Alsa and Phonon settings with the phonon-xine-backend. This is the sound settings that KDE has by default, so every other element that is added and interferes with these settings disturbs it. And we can't stress this often enough: Amarok doesn't do sound itself, it lets Phonon do all the work.
* Check with a new user: if the sound works, then it's somewhere in ~/.kde/share/config/
* make sure you have no pulseaudio installed. I f yes, remove it, remove the ~/.kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc and all alsa.conf files in $HOME, then restart KDE

No need to be agressive against Amarok and it's developers for a problem that is not our making.