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No sound from Songbird while running Linux
just installed songbird 1.0 on ubuntu
its loaded a previous library and when i double click a song it adds it to the now playing list but doesn't play it
just stops at 0.00 and stays there.
any ideas on what's going wrong?
its loaded a previous library and when i double click a song it adds it to the now playing list but doesn't play it
just stops at 0.00 and stays there.
any ideas on what's going wrong?
I’m perplexed
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@ Kenneth
Try switching to a different sound driver:
System>Preferences>Sound
(Sistema>Preferencias>Sonida)
Mess around with the default sound playback drivers, try changing it to ALSA or something else. You may need to restart your computer in-between each change.. A different sound driver should work...
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Yep, that sounds just like what happened to me. Once you start songbird, it broke some sound driver, and nothing else played.
So did that work-around work? (Like before opening songbird, you played a file, then tried Songbird)
If so.. I'm not sure if this will work, (because it worked for me but not my friend) but go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio and follow those instructions.
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Inappropriate?Hi Huw, I ran into this issue on a friends Ubuntu computer once, and a workaround was to find song/mp3 (the actual file, from Nautilus) and play that (open it) with mplayer or totem or whatever. Then go to Songbird and see if it plays your songs..
Its weird, I dont know why it did that, maybe something with Sound drivers or PulseAudio???
I’m see if that works?
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Inappropriate?weird, now that songbird's open i can't seem to play any audio files (or any youtube videos etc) - it seems to shut down my audio stuff.
when i restart, its fine. right up until i open songbird, which just seems to shut everything down.
maybe i don't have the right drivers installed or something. but rhythmbox seems to work fine for me usually.
I’m baffled
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Inappropriate?Yep, that sounds just like what happened to me. Once you start songbird, it broke some sound driver, and nothing else played.
So did that work-around work? (Like before opening songbird, you played a file, then tried Songbird)
If so.. I'm not sure if this will work, (because it worked for me but not my friend) but go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio and follow those instructions.
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Inappropriate?The same happens to me on Ubuntu 8.10/64bit. As soon as I launch Songbird it crashes the underlying pulseaudio-daemon process. After a manual restart of "pulseaudio -D" Songbird is able to play some music.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Hi everybody,
I've got the same problem that Huw has explained. I installed Songbird 1.0 in Ubuntu 8.10 some time ago and it didn't play any song. It always gets stuck in 0:00 or 0:01 (and even though it sometimes gets to 0:01, there's no sound either).
The funny thing is that in previous versions (0.5, 0.7 and 0.8), it worked fine :S
I've followed the steps from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio but it still doesn't play anything. Does somebody know any other thing to try?
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?Usually this is a driver problem or a package problem/missing dependencies. Try installing all the possible gstreamer plugins. Or see if anything else is broken, try playing things in totem or mplayer, or even in firefox.
I'm going to reinstall my Ubuntu pretty soon, and try to figure out what exactly the cause of this is, cause it does not happen on every system. -
Inappropriate?I use sabayon and everything works i mean have sound
even if i open songbird.
The problem is the Songbird doesnt have sound!!
But just songbird.... Help
Sorry My english!!
VIVA COLOMBIA! :)
I’m sad beacause It looks great a Real Musica Player.Not like Totem
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Inappropriate?@ Kenneth
Try switching to a different sound driver:
System>Preferences>Sound
(Sistema>Preferencias>Sonida)
Mess around with the default sound playback drivers, try changing it to ALSA or something else. You may need to restart your computer in-between each change.. A different sound driver should work...
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Inappropriate?Hey All-
I agree with Michael, switching the sound playback to ALSA under Music and Movies under Sound Preferences fixed my issue. I am not sure if its just a pulseaudio thing, but I had the same type of issue on Amarok before.
At least for me it seems to happen when I play any type of video in the browser and then play a song and/or vice versa. -
Inappropriate?thxs guys this has helped me with my sound problems on ubuntu and now i can play sound out of my 5.1 speakers
thxs again
I’m very happy
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Inappropriate?I am running Ubuntu 8.10 and sound works on everything else.
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Inappropriate?I'm using songbird 1.2 on Arch x64, ALSA sound.
I get no sound when playing anything. The play action works, the seconds and progress bar location change.
I have gstreamer, I have the gstreamer plugins, it apparently works.
I've run gstreamer-properties and tested the output, it works.
I've checked and flipped around some mediacore settings from about:config, stil nothing. I've also tried removing .songbird2 (don't have .songbird1), reinstalling, etc.
I've also checked for logs, nothing there.
I've tried building from source or downloading the binary from getsongbird.com.
Any ideas? I can't get ANY sound out of songbird.
Btw, my volume is not down :).
I've tried the same thing on another machine with almost the same hardware and almost the same setup, songbird works fine. There is no difference regarding the sound setup on the two machines, standard Arch Linux ALSA.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
no sound.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Well, I've found out, that the music didnt play, because I've got it in another partition, so I have to first mount that partition, in order I can can play the music .
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Inappropriate?I'm using songbird 1.2 on Arch x64, ALSA sound.
I get no sound when playing anything. The play action works, the seconds and progress bar location change.
I have gstreamer, I have the gstreamer plugins, it apparently works.
I've run gstreamer-properties and tested the output, it works.
I've checked and flipped around some mediacore settings from about:config, stil nothing. I've also tried removing .songbird2 (don't have .songbird1), reinstalling, etc.
I've also checked for logs, nothing there.
Any ideas? I can't get ANY sound out of songbird.
Btw, my volume is not down :).
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
no sound.
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?so basically there are many people who have this same problem, and there is no real solution. I guess i'll have to get used to a different player.
I’m frustrated
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I think sound in general on Linux has a few problems. I had the same problems and I just tried switching from Alsa to OSS. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
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