From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeFKI-0000LP-PX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:00:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B8F4E095B; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454ADE095B for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so1219116nfh.26 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=95cQSlTBmtumAtjonMTbsv6FPDnTiXQXMrf/LbMdOt0=; b=nRv3tbV7vk7SnwfhlSGs5cWY+wW6ozighzAwkxWo8mHCZUo8Yi36DtFiyb8qwtDRCGblkmRxB4zR/RxCox/3IU7wJVzzq7orc18GsrwpNsv7CqaPv6EnVHqcgxQY2rxhcMEYjbssniahFA/0NAxMLje41u7m7NbXMPq7LSNUEyc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=FSh3cE5iUWbB44j1IoMulZseQFjFYZlcYKDuOV91KJQoFsNvUb3QqG+/FUSxhZPoDYixWjehge/uAQl1oqwIMrvGoyHeK0Kzd20dpp9b26pyGc2wksRj/3/PZdYX1orUfkwo+WeJzhgLNbXXmkJVHdFocYRNCyWiyAjOAWN6e/I= Received: by 10.78.205.16 with SMTP id c16mr21431096hug.24.1206475252328; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.230.74]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 33sm8593843hue.13.2008.03.25.13.00.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox plays silently Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:59:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803252159.41035.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c1480c07-f317-4b3b-94b5-7f3ad32a2f7a X-Archives-Hash: 33dcca53196457bc17f50cd418dae170 On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Good evening! > > I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on > my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb > progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see the sound. > But I hear nothing at all :/ > > Any ideas about why that's so? > > The volume slider in rb is all the way up. Also all the sliders > in the mixer are all up. And when I use a different player, > like Amarok, VLC or MPlayer, I hear sound when I play the song > that's silent in Rhythmbox. This happens with all the songs > I tried. > > Well - what to do? Easy. Don't use rhythmbox. Don't use Gnome. Do use KDE. Do use Amarok. Do use mplayer. *especially* do use mplayer. I know this isn't what you want to hear. I just couldn't resist an open invitation to dig at Gnome. I'll crawl back into my KDE and e17 fanboy clubhouse and shut up now. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list