I\'m not sure if this is an issue with gstreamer or amarok but when I\'m compiling programs, my music cuts out. Sometimes for a split second, sometimes for a few and I\'ve even had amarok crash on me... This DOES NOT happen with any other music player (xmms or beep). I have plenty of RAM 1.2G and a decent CPU Athalon XP 2200+.

Any ideas?

Just recompiled with xine support. Same issue. So it appears amarok can\'t handle it when packages are compiling. Correct me if I\'m wrong... But if xmms/bmp doesn\'t stall like amarok does, what else is one to deduce?

So no one, including the developers, has any ideas. Now it seems amarok just cuts out randomly. In addition, the beginning of all tracks starts lower (sound quality) and a few seconds into the track, the sound boosts back to normal.

I\'d appreciate any input. This is getting quite annoying.

My music has been skipping when just using Firefox....

My computer is a AMD 3500+ with 1GB of memory.

Try extending the sound buffer - you can control this in your asound.conf (should be in /etc); increase the value of the \"buffer_size\" field.

If you have no asound.conf, take this one: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/Se ... x_for_ALSA
(Have a look at the bottom at the page, where it says \"If you get skipping...\")

Thanks for that link. I do believe that is going to do the trick...

However, I think I figured out why my tracks begin with what sound like really low sound quality then jumps to normalized volume. This happens when I have crossfading enabled. Once disabled, tracks start at their normal volume...

Any ideas about that?

Post edited by: Amoeba, at: 2005/05/02 01:48

I increased my buffer_size value to 65636 but it still skips. I figured this would be a fair sized buffer. What is the average buffer size being used by amarok users?

Thanks