I have just installed Fedora 12. Adding songs to the right hand side of the screen is a bit flakey, they dont always drag there, or double click from the "local music" on the left hand side.

Some songs will play at normal speed, some will flick through in about 5 seconds.

There is no sound at all. Sound is normal on all other applications.

In sound and video config, Output devices are:
1- Via 8237 (sound chip)
2- Pulseaudio Sound server
3- Default
4- Default

All four of these devices test OK with the "test" button, there is sound in the speakers.

I have adjusted everything under "alsamixer" and everything under system-preferences-sound.

I had some problems with Amarok and Fedora 11, but I soon found a script that installed some patches or package or something, that fixed everything. It was so easy I do not remember- and i cannot find it now.

Can you tell me where I may find that script? Or any magic cure?

cheers

Make sure that you are using the Phonon-Xine backend. Fedora might default to the buggy GStreamer backend instead.

Hi Markey
I checked Xine, it didnt seem to be there, I installed it-

[root@fedbox ~]# yum update xine
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Package(s) xine available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for Update

[root@fedbox ~]# yum install xine
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package xine is obsoleted by xine-ui, trying to install xine-ui-0.99.5-16.fc12.i686 instead

Installed OK

No change

Used system-administration- add/remove software to remove and then reinstall amarok.
no change

I dont think there is a problem with the sound. Kaffeine, movie Player, and VLC work OK but I like Amarok.
I cant get Amarok to play a song - i have 5 MPs in the playlist, and it jumps through each of them in about 3 seconds without playing. It will play wavs OK but the sound is completely distorted. So there seems to be lots of issues here.

richardpu wrote:Hi Markey
I checked Xine, it didnt seem to be there, I installed it-

[root@fedbox ~]# yum update xine
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Package(s) xine available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for Update

[root@fedbox ~]# yum install xine
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package xine is obsoleted by xine-ui, trying to install xine-ui-0.99.5-16.fc12.i686 instead

Installed OK

No change

Used system-administration- add/remove software to remove and then reinstall amarok.
no change

I dont think there is a problem with the sound. Kaffeine, movie Player, and VLC work OK but I like Amarok.
I cant get Amarok to play a song - i have 5 MPs in the playlist, and it jumps through each of them in about 3 seconds without playing. It will play wavs OK but the sound is completely distorted. So there seems to be lots of issues here.

Try Dragon Player or JuK, they both use Phonon too. If they work (or not), we can see.

This fixes all the Amarok problems on Fedora 12

[root@]# yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld

Fixed!!

Hi Markey

After I fixed the problem as above, I saw your post.

dragon Player and Juk both work perfectly- after I did the fix. So it does not prove much.
but I am happy, Amarok is the best. And thanks for your help.

cheers

For posterity, see also:
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Fedora